On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:27:09 -0400 (EDT), Gabriel wrote:
>I am wondering if anyone can direct me to American, Scots, English, Irish,
>Middle or Old English poems that contain, concern, or otherwise condone
>farts, farting, and flatulence.
Gabriel, this is proving more difficult than I thought. A dictionary
of quotes gives Suckling's "Love is the fart / Of every heart" and a
reference to sheep "swoll'n with wind" in Milton's Lycidas... I'm sure
that Clare has some rustic farting, but all I could find was some shit
in "My Mary". Burns has a fart in Tam O'Shanter I think? Bunting has
"Nor will unprofitable motion stir / the stink that settles round him"
in Briggflatts, and an (uncollected) envoi to the reader: "Do you
suppose / I'd publish it? / Spell out a fart / and have it printed?"
Pound has some farting in one of the Cantos but I haven't checked...
Or perhaps I should've sent this backchannel, snuck snuck?
Hope the search goes well -
RC
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