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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Robin Hamilton
Sent: 09 July 2009 01:53
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Subject: Re: h e l p . . .
Specifically:
Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong:
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Shelley, "Julian and Maddalo", Line 544.
Robin
> "... in the preface to the collection [Elizabeth Barrett (Browning)]
> insisted on the sorrow and suffering necessary to the poet, and she quoted
> from Shelley's 'Julian and Maddalo' to clinch her argument that 'we learn
> in suffering what we teach in song.' ... "
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