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Originally posted by Vodstok
Ahhh! Stingy! You evil bastard....
Just kidding, i always looked foward to reading Poe in school. I wish Lovecraft was more widespread in the education system. I think we read a very short story by him once in my 12th grade class...
Of course, we also read "A Rose for Emily"... Talk about messed up...
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Actually, I'm glad you brought up Lovecraft (again! Yay! :D ) Your twelfth grade teacher must have been awesome to have let you experience him. I agree that Lovecraft should be taken more seriously by academians. In fact, it was not until quite recently (as early as 1999) that Lovecraft's writings were printed in a Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition ... and categorized as "Literature"! You can thank the scholarship of S.T. Joshi for this. When I go for my doctorate degree, I may do my thesis on Lovecraft to give him a boost (I was going to do it on Joyce) ... so far, I think Joshi is the only Lovecraft scholar out there that is taken seriously, so I'll definitely be able to tap into an hugely unexplored field ... as far as professional criticism and study goes.