On Nov 29, 2005, at 16:43, Jon Corelis wrote:
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> I'll post separately an incorrect poem I wrote; it may have appeared
> on this
> list previously, but not for some time.
Thanks for that, Jon. As Douglas points out it's an unusual tone for a
villanelle; presumably this tension between form and character is the
interest.
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> Catullus 10.
Possible misuse of the word camp excepted -- one wonders how the poem
would be accepted if it hadn't been explicitly after Catullus.
Certainly Catullus 10 is/was read very differently from a contemporary
rendering of the same narrative.
--Knut
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