Yes, it is sad for Ken, I realise how lucky I am never to have had to teach
poetry as a day-job.
2009/9/29 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Geez, that's so sad, Ken.
>
> I admit that I did read The Fairie Queene (for a grad course, yes, & I
> chose it), & actually enjoyed some of it, although I haven't read it again.
> But to have lost Wyatt!? Im very glad that didnt happen to me, & I 'taught'
> his poems with great delight (whether or not the students felt it, I admit).
>
> Are you able, at least, to watch Shakespeare's other plays? That's what
> theyre meant for, after all...
>
> Doug
> On 28-Sep-09, at 11:52 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> I had to read all of Shakespeare's plays, esp. the Histories. Since 1976 I
>> have read one play again: King Lear . I want to learn about growing old from
>> someone besides my endocrinologist. I learned via total immersion to despise
>> Shakespeare because I HAD to read him. The same way the entirety of the
>> English so-called Renaissance from WyattandSurrey (isn't that one name?)
>> through 1642 long ago lost its appeal. Spend a semester studying one
>> freaking book of The Faerie Queene: I double-dare you.
>>
>
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