Re: Hapworth
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 11:20:33 +1000
Then again Rimbaud wrote his entire canon as a teenager and I for one would
vouch for its quality. I think that juvenilia should not be automatically
discounted - if nothing else it often indicates in quite an eerie way the
direction the future writer's work will take - Emily Bronte wrote her best
poems as part of a saga she had been writing with her siblings since she
was a small child.
P.S. For interest's sake I dug out that old MS of mine and found it
surprisingly good. I did a lot of things better by sheer instinct than I do
now by following - or even consciously breaking - the rules.
Camille
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> >Just for the record I guess I was a Seymourish seven year old myself
and,
> >as one who attempted my first novel at nine and succeeded at twelve
(with
> >wildly uneven success - I haven't looked at that old manuscript for so
many
> >years I have no idea whether it's an unsung work of genius or utter
> >rubbish) -
>
> Probably the latter. While it is true that Mozart wrote his first operas
> and concertos at 7 & 8, these somehow are never the ones that the Royal
> Philharmonic records. Hmmm...
>
> Thor
>
>
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