(urth) If I already like ...

[Daniel Petersen]

That's too bad Wolfe didn't respond to your invitation.  I'd love to see
him do it.  And I'm thankful you put up his excellent Tolkien piece since
the Tolkien anthology he wrote if for rejected (!) it.

But as to the Hodgson influence, I would have thought worldview would be no
barrier at all to you seeing it since you readily acknowledge Lovecraft's
influence on Wolfe and those two cosmic views are diametrically opposed.
 Plus, Wolfe gives as much airtime to Pagan, Stoic, Cosmic Horror, etc.
worldviews in his fiction as he does to his Catholicism, usually trying (I
think) to see what he takes to be elements of truth in all the former
subsumed and 'perfected' in the latter.

-DOJP

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:50 PM, pinlighter <pinlighter at btconnect.com>wrote:

> **
> Hodgson's world view is profoundly Pagan and Stoic: Wolfe's is Catholic.
> It may be that this sharp divergence obscures my appreciation of an
> influence.
>
> I'd be intrested to know of any comments by Wolfe on WHH.
>
> My website also hosts Wolfe's "The Best Introduction to the Mountains" and
> in passing while negotiating payment for it I did ask W if he would
> consider writing a Night land story for me: but he did not respond at all.
>
>
>     hartshorn
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>
> Yes.  Frankly, Wolfe's horror 'tone' strikes me as much closer to Hodgson
> than Lovecraft, even though Wolfe perhaps deals more explicitly with
> Lovecraftian themes.  There is a strange animal terror connected to the
> more cosmic and numinous horror and awe in Hodgy that I don't so much find
> in Lovey but do find echoed in Wolfe, his Solar monsters especially perhaps
> - notules, alzabo, devil fish on spongey island, leatherskin, etc.  I have
> heard WHH referenced in at least one review of Wolfe.
>
>
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