One thing about sentimentality that's rarely mentioned is how easy it
seems for contemporaries to accept as serious what from the
perspective of later generations is ludicrously sentimental. Some of
the things, for instance, in the 'Q' OBEV are so ludricrously
sentimental that they're literally hard to read with a straight face,
but presumably educated and intelligent people in their time read them
without guffawing. I wonder what poems of our time, solemnly accepted
as valid expressions of deep emotion today, will cause snickers a
hundred years from now.
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Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
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