Dear John
>
>Max raises a very interesting query. One which I would also like answered.
>Which of RK's works are verses and which poems ?
>- a single example would suffice as an initial guide line.
>I always thought that verse was: metrical composition, and poetry as
>distinguished from prose.
>
>On the subject of 'Vulgar' - the Latin source might assist in the
definition -vulgar/is - common or
>general; vulgariter - 'in the common fashion'; vulgus -the common people;
>vulgatum - make common,publish, broadcast.
>
>From: John Radcliffe <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:56 PM
>Subject: A definition
>
>
>>Max Rives has asked:
>>
>>'Do you think the mailbase would give me a definition of "vulgar" as
>applied
>>to the distinction between "poetry" and "verse" of Kipling's ? It is
>>obviously not the same as in French, and dictionaries are not very
helpfull
>>even the OED'.
>>
>>Can anyone help ?
>>
>>John R
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