> that's been missed out of my Hopkins, but I am pretty sure that What is
the
> point of it? is an addition of Amis' own self-disgust
>
> L
Quite likely, Lawrence. At a tangent this, but one of my favourite anecdotes
concerns Hull University Library. In the Gents there was an inaccessible
little fuse-box, high on the corners of the walls. On it some wag wrote:
'Knock three times and ask for Philip Larkin'
david
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
To: brit poets <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: LRB re:re:verge & vergelessness
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "brit poets" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 03 September 2000 03:00
> Subject: re: LRB re:re:verge & vergelessness
>
> | 'About Hopkins: I find him a bad poet......I had another go at his
poetry
> | the other day, and confirmed my previous impression of it....trying to
> treat
> | words as if they were music. They aren't, are they?.....
>
> I like the doubt of "are they?"
>
> but
>
> | bitch
> | batch bum come cock cork fork fuck stuff; what is the point of it?
>
> that's been missed out of my Hopkins, but I am pretty sure that What is
the
> point of it? is an addition of Amis' own self-disgust
>
> L
>
>
>
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