tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post5704914671432326349..comments2024-03-15T18:01:26.787-05:00Comments on Melvilliana: Who is B. L.?Scott Norsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00458190971293597545noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-49219216656204440222019-12-19T15:45:57.330-06:002019-12-19T15:45:57.330-06:00Way belated thanks. Guess I was free associating a...Way belated thanks. Guess I was free associating and got hung up in the B's. What about Arnold's friend Arthur Hugh Clough? Scott Norsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00458190971293597545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-62243195985649380962015-09-04T10:23:59.496-05:002015-09-04T10:23:59.496-05:00Newman was only made Blessed by Benedict XVI in 20...Newman was only made Blessed by Benedict XVI in 2010, so that's an impossible connexion. Besides, only the first book is about the Oxford Movement. B.L. then goes on to read the second, something atheistic/vitriolic/revolutionary. So these are two influences that nevertheless leave him unsatisfied. Then, at the tomb on pilgrimage, he has an insight that he is more attracted to quiet reverence than polemics.<br /><br />No idea whether B.L. stands for anything specific, though--I just wanted to comment to say that the "blessed" connexion is anachronistic, and anyway B.L. doesn't identify with the Oxford movement any more than he does with Marxism--they were just two influences on him.TuAutemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10972431697631270307noreply@blogger.com