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Among English professors, one delight is Enoch Soames, the unjustly
neglected Catholic diabolist.... See the magisterial Bibliography of
Enoch Soames, 1862–1897, by Mark Samuels Lasner (1999; Amazon has a
copy for just over $300). See too Enoch Soames: The Critical Heritage:
http://www.cypherpress.com/soames/index.asp
And, just to bring this back to Virginia, see my own monograph Oscar
Wilde and Williamsburg: A Study, where I document Wilde's neglecting
to visit Williamsburg (like other Victorian authors, in fact) when he
had the chance.
http://books.google.com/books/about/
Oscar_Wilde_and_Williamsburg.html?id=74b8GgAACAAJ
Some years later, Richard Ellmann and then a German scholar both
wrote that Wilde did visit Williamsburg; satire became..... scholarship:
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/15997825/oscar-wilde-
williamsburg-virginia
Finally, a question that arises from all this..... Wilde was also
claimed to have visited Charlottesville during the visit when he
avoided Williamsburg--I expressed skepticism in my N&Q article, not
finding any newspaper accounts of such a visit.
But.... did he? (he did lecture in Norfolk and Richmond).
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Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 757-221-3932
http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/
http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html
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Have we got a college? Have we got a football team?....
Well, we can't afford both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the
college.
--Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers."
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