Here, here! Makes you wonder if beatrice is really krupoetry.
Cheers
David
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From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 18 April 2000 09:31
Subject: thoghtless behaviour
>& there are poets who don't want to receive large attachments to email -
>please don't do that again
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>L
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "beatrice alighieri" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: 18 April 2000 04:37
>Subject: Re: subsidy culture/Divine Comedy
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>
>| Can I speak?
>| There are poets beyond the see - they are
>| in touch with you and can read all your mail.
>| This is legimitate.
>| We have wide-opened ears.
>| Please, be communicative!
>|
>| Bibi
>|
>| --- Viv Kitson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>| > Martin - You're right, of course, about "fatuous
>| > ecstasies anent Beatrice
>| > Alighieri"...although I would have postulated my
>| > position as "simulated
>| > ecstasies". As other members of this list have
>| > frequently commented, irony
>| > does not - quite obviously - translate to email
>| > communication. Or, to quote
>| > Iggy Pop, "I'm bored, I'm the Chairman of the
>| > Bored". Just trying to
>| > stimulate a little "erudite" (??) fun on the list.
>| >
>| > And you are correct, quoting from memory: Beatrice
>| > Portinari it is. I've
>| > found on the bookshelves the volume of "The Divine
>| > Comedy" I bought when I
>| > was 15 or 16. "Oxford Editions of Standard Authors",
>| > translated by H.F.Cary,
>| > with 109 illustrations by John Flaxman (no
>| > publication date). I obviously
>| > bought it on sale: the price on the flyleaf is a
>| > crossed out 15/6 to 5/-.
>| > Circa 1961. five shillings was a lot for an
>| > adolecsent to spend on a volume
>| > of poetry. Particularly when I read Cary's Preface
>| > and note that it is dated
>| > February 1844! (that is, 100 years before I was
>| > born).
>| >
>| > I haven't seen the Blake illustrations to the Divine
>| > Comedy, but the Flaxman
>| > illustrations are decidedly in the Blake style. I
>| > can make this comment
>| > because I've also taken from the bookshelves my
>| > Viking Press 1960 edition of
>| > "The Portable Blake" - probably purchased
>| > contemporaneously with the Divine
>| > Comedy.
>| >
>| > Yes, Martin, I do not - to use a favourite word of
>| > contemporary
>| > politicians - resile from my adolescent fantasies
>| > and interests. They formed
>| > me (for better or worse). But I would have thought
>| > that my comment in my
>| > last response to "Beatrice Alighieri" - about
>| > playing with identities etc. -
>| > was a "dead give away" as to the position...
>| >
>| > FUN, Martin. Fun, GOOD FUN (but perhaps not
>| > erudite).
>| >
>| > Cheers,
>| > Viv Kitson
>| >
>| > Martin J. Walker wrote:
>| > > Excuse me if I interrupt the fatuous ecstasies
>| > anent "Beatrice Alighieri"
>| > > (sic), but it seems to me that you, Viv, and
>| > others perchance, have fallen
>| > > for a gross deception, an instance of what certain
>| > neo-gnostic
>| > commentators,
>| > > later unfortunately suppressed, have designated
>| > the "false Beatrice"
>| > > syndrome (so well known to Blake, vide his
>| > illustrations for the
>| > > _Commedia_ ). Who knows what subtle fairy has
>| > foisted this deceit on you,
>| > > ladies and gentlemen, but it is not, repeat NOT,
>| > the Beatrice Portinari (I
>| > > am open to correction to the spelling of her
>| > family name, not having the
>| > > relevant literature to hand in my sylvan retreat)
>| > of literary renown and
>| > > august anima of both Dante Alighieri and the
>| > adolescent Viv Kitson, known
>| > to
>| > > us as otherwise sharp-witted and adult contributor
>| > to this poetry list.
>| > > Another estimable contributor, Mairead by name,
>| > has suggested that
>| > > "Beatrice" is "Henry" - but who is Henry? Henry
>| > Pussycat is no longer with
>| > > us r.i.p. The dark wood grows curiouser and
>| > curiouser. Could the list have
>| > > been infected by a very intelligent virus, perish
>| > the thought, albeit one
>| > > that commits solecisms of the above-indicated kind
>| > and attempts to pull
>| > the
>| > > wool over our eyes with such patently fabricated
>| > misspellings as "hights"
>| > > and "wispering"?
>| > > Yours etc. Martin
>| > >
>| > >
>| >
>| >
>|
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