tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post6790112847325432426..comments2024-03-01T14:27:35.794-08:00Comments on Albion Awakening: Review of The Angry Years by Colin Wilson (2007)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-4546150326762781662016-10-10T01:54:51.656-07:002016-10-10T01:54:51.656-07:00@David - Yes, Wain is discussed pretty thoroughly,...@David - Yes, Wain is discussed pretty thoroughly, albeit concisely. Wilson agrees with you (and me) that Wain's best work seems to be his Sam Johnson biography (and that little book where he synthesised a biography from Johnson's own writings). In a nutshell, Wilson feels that the fiction is fatally damaged by negative emotions such as resentment - Wilson regards the last work (a trilogy on the theme of Oxford, as a place) as his best fiction, partly because it was about a place rather than people. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-37038124654593834612016-10-09T16:47:33.033-07:002016-10-09T16:47:33.033-07:00I'd be interested to know if Wilson treats tha...I'd be interested to know if Wilson treats that young Inkling whom you mention, John Wain, here! I first ran into him as a Samuel Johnson biographer - before I had read any of that other Johnsonian Inkling, C.S. Lewis (or maybe even heard of him), but have never tried any of his novels (though I have Where the Rivers Meet and Comedies on the shelf, and wonder if they are intended as any kind of contrast with The Lord of the Rings as 'totaler Roman'), fearing I might find them 'over-sexed' (so to put it).<br /><br />David Llewellyn DoddsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com