Peter do you see no hypocrisy in first chastising (or standing behind
the chastisement of) JG for 'attacks', then calling him a troll? I've
seen no name-calling in his messages.
that's one delicious mud-hurl of a poem. it's even greater than Kent's
tirade against Oswald in King Lear, in a way, because of its [facade
of] subtlety.
KS
On 04/12/2007, Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Since Dryden cheerfully pilloried Shadwell by name in MacFlecknoe, why would
> he use Og here?
>
> http://www2.wmin.ac.uk/clemenr/ORACLE/oghist.html for some notes.
>
> P
>
> PS: in re JG's contributions, there's a well-known e-convention that runs:
> please do not feed the troll.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Jon Corelis
> > Sent: 04 December 2007 00:47
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: The thick-skinned good old days
> >
> > Now stop your noses, Readers, all and some,
> > For here's a tun of Midnight work to come,
> > Og* from a Treason Tavern rowling home.
> > Round as a Globe and Liquored ev'ry chink,
> > Goodly and Great he Sayls behind his Link,
> > With all this Bulk there's nothing lost in Og,
> > For ev'ry inch that is not Fool is Rogue:
> > A Monstrous mass of foul corrupted matter,
> > As all the Devils had spew'd to make the batter,
> > When wine has given him courage to Blaspheme,
> > He curses God, but God before curst him;
> > And if man cou'd have reason, none has more,
> > That made his Paunch so rich, and him so poor.
> >
> > -- Dryden
> >
> > ==================
> > * Og, as everyone knew, meant Thomas Shadwell, one of the most
> > prominent poets of the time.
> >
> > --
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> >
> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
> >
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