About 15 years ago I tried to get the rights to the complete works of
Percy Dovetonsils. Would have made a nice little book. The Kovacs
estate wasn't interested.
There's an alternate image of the poet as rake, going back at least
to the Restoration, and passing down through Byron to Dylan Thomas and beyond.
And of course there's the vatic nonsense that becomes a slow fart with Bly.
Mark
At 08:43 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote:
>Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>Kilmer died a soldier in WWI. I vaguely remember a film--must have
>>been 30s or 40s Hollywood--in which he's featured as a rather
>>lachrymose girlie-man of a soldier--the popular idea of male poets at the time.
>
>Hell, 1960 or '61, there was Ernie Kovacs "poet" character, rather a
>"nance" called Percy Dovetonsils
>
>Had anyone heard of Robert Bly back then?:-)
>
>ken
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