Fenton wrote a lot of lyrics for sings - wrote a book for a West End
Musical which I don't think got performed but he was canny and got a
percentage of the proceeds. And a mansion in oxford. Or something like
that.
From what I remember of reading his stuff, dipodic would seem to fit
some of it. Although you're right in saying that he has dared to
venture outside those tramlines.
Roger
On 1/23/07, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > OK so I'm wrong again!
> > At least I'm not alone.
> > Roger
>
> Ah, depends which dipodic you mean, but. The term does seem to drift around
> a bit, meaning something quite different (earlier) in classical quantitative
> scansion, for instance.
>
> I think Joe and I are both singing from the same hymn sheet (hm -- are hymns
> dipodic?), but I've been stressing the origins while his latest neat post
> directs towards the way it occurs in non-folk poetry.
>
> [I'm unsure where to place the comment you forwarded from Joanna. If there
> were an equivalent here to Dana Gioa among the New Formalists, it might just
> be James Fenton. Except he's a bit too daring for them. Does Gioia mention
> him anywhere, or stick to trying to rehabilitate Charles Causley?]
>
> R.
>
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