Less there was some doubt, I just wanted to say I liked the Sydney, and the
Chaucer, too.
Tho I obviously have trouble with contemporary equations with some of the
older formal interps of Muse functions, provoked or not, Jon, I appreciate
what you bring to the plate - poems et al.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> I don't think anything can be inferred from silence on this list. The
> assumptions that every member reads every posting, has the time and
> motivation to reply to any he or she considers worthwhile, and means to send
> a message by not replying to any given one, are all dubious, and none is
> valid in my case.
>
> I've always liked the Chaucer poem referred to and don't feel any need to
> contrast it to the Sidney one to either's advantage or detriment. Poetry, I
> feel, isn't graded on the curve.
>
> Reading them together it strikes me how much more alien the Chaucer one
> sounds to me, while Sidney speaks in accents that seem to me more
> contemporary than Tennyson's. The Chaucer makes me think of a medieval
> tapestry, beautiful but frozen, while Sidney might be crooning into a
> microphone. Well, you asked.
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