I like Henry James on Middlemarch, he starts off all blowhard ('one of the strongest and one of the weakest of English novels') but ultimately he's more sympathetic than that suggests (lol at him of all people marking a dozen passages 'obscure' though).
https://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol3/issue2/jameshmm.htm
(maybe thread should be renamed Middlemarch and other works by George Eliot aka Mary Ann/Marian Evans)
― big online yam retailer (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
lol James was just expressing the anxiety of being influenced by a girl
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
bbc adaptation of middlemarch is on iPlayer for the next 16 days
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link