What shape/is was George Macbeth? Stephen Spender was very tall and this
used to be held against him, so to speak, as compact bodies were thought by
his contemporaries to be necessary for poets...
Peter Porter, of average shape, liked to say that his friend Les Murray
needed, in order to be the poet of all Australia, to be as large as he
was...
On 1/07/11 7:39 PM, "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, as a rather 'small, fat, bald man' I am pleased with the
> similarity. It probably stops there though.
>
> When George Macbeth was in Perth, he expressed a theory that poets
> wrote poems in a shape similar to their frame. As we have tall, short,
> thin and fat poets in this town, much mirth was had applying this
> theory!
>
> Andrew
>
> On 30 June 2011 22:43, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I came across an entertaining article the other day which, after examining
>> known discrepancies between actual and painted images of sitters in
>> Renaissance portraiture, concluded that, given the propensities for
>> flattery, and the only two known images that are even putatively of
>> Shakespeare (the funerary image on the tomb and the First Folio portrat)
>> conclude that the Swan of Avon was a small, fat, bald man. I found it
>> pleasantly discordant with romantic imagery.
>>
>> best
>>
>> dave
>>
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