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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "david bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: No doubt about it enfin
> > a sampler of poets who could write supremely badly:
>
> > Christopher Murray Grieve
>
> Is this a sub-set of "died before their time"? -- CMG after 1926. (Or
> Wordsworth after 1815?).
>
> Given the topic, I'm surprised the name of the Immortal W. McGonagall
> hasn't yet appeared.
>
> Robin Hamilton
>
>
> oi bain't no scholard of the chronology of the Great MacWhiskey's
creations but i have a fuzzy impression that the old devil re-surfaced
intermittently post-General Strike. i understand, on good authority that is
(an awful word for an innocent quaker like me to use), that he stayed
unfossilised in his prose polemics long after.
and even the stone-set Old William did write those Prelude lines on Newton
late in life. as well as the Extempore Effusion.
as for Dundee's finest (apologies to bill herbert or don paterson or anyone
else) well he's a sub-set of literature all by himself, rather like
Finnegans Wake in that, and an interesting pairing. Compare!Contrast!
And the Holy Name should'st not be mentined in vain.
Why doesn't Douglas watch the football in the pub? Or Crufts or the new
version of the Magic Roundabout or . . . . I'm lost on this.
regards to y'all
david
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