I'd be very flattered if it was a description of DB, Paul!
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
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From: "paul murphy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: Who wrote Shakespeare?
is this a description of Shakespeare, or of DB?
>From: "david.bircumshaw"
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
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>Subject: Re: Who wrote Shakespeare?
>Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:06:09 +0100
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>Shakespoke wasn't superhuman, that's just a joke, but very special in a
>certain way, which I think goes like this: in the beginning you have the
>voice of a crowd, a consciousness that is undifferentiated from 'wot
>everyone else finks' that gradually learns to articulate itself, to become
>'other'. Simultaneously that voice is 'grounded' in a certain range of
verse
>so it has a vehicle for that articulation.
>
>Very basic this but it's very different from Marlowe, who is quite
>definitely 'someone' from the start. WS is like no-one to begin, who learns
>how to speak for everyone by not being like anyone, if ya get what I mean.
>
>Best
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>David Bircumshaw
>
>Leicester, England
>
>Home Page
>
>A Chide's Alphabet
>
>Painting Without Numbers
>
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
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