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. <div>
<br></div><div>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. <div>
<br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:50 PM, pinlighter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pinlighter@btconnect.com">pinlighter@btconnect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font face="Verdana">Hodgson's world view is profoundly Pagan and
Stoic: Wolfe's is Catholic. It may be that this sharp divergence
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<div><font face="Verdana">I'd be intrested to know of any comments by Wolfe
on WHH. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"> hartshorn</font></div>
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<a title="danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com" href="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">Daniel Petersen</a> </div>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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