On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> just had Tennyson and Browning on Radio 4
> the Browning was pretty muddy
>
> L
Was it from "Red Cotton Nightcap Country--or, Turf and Towers?"
"He probably would preach that turf is mud.
Suppose it mud, through mud one picks a way,
And when, clay-clogged, the struggler steps to stone,
He uncakes shoe, arrives in manlier guise
Than carried pick-a-back by Eldobert
Big-baby-fashion, lest his leathers leak!"
That's about as muddy as poetry gets. Some WWI poets excepted.
David Latane
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