& David, yes (re McD), I see, sorry, right
>back in the hunny pot with me, then
I was struck by his upset at the poet making up language he didn't have;
where does that leave Spenser?
L<
Indeed, in the dog-house one assumes, Lawrence.
I was in a condition of Japanese eyebrows at his grudgingly praising
description of 'such as A Drunk Man Looks at a Thistle' as 'engaging little
oddities' (wish I could write 'little oddities' like that) and taken aback
by 'if poetry cannot be wrung from the language Scotsmen speak then no
amount of nostalgic pedantry' can succeed. Phew!
Best
Dave
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