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From: "David E. Latane" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 29 April 2000 21:26
Subject: Re: Early recorded poetry
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| On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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| > just had Tennyson and Browning on Radio 4
| > the Browning was pretty muddy
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| Was it from "Red Cotton Nightcap Country--or, Turf and Towers?"
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| "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!"
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| That's about as muddy as poetry gets. Some WWI poets excepted.
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| David Latane
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