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>--On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 6:05 PM -0400 "David E. Latane" ><[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Well, in print quoting a whole poem gets flagged no matter what. I know >> one person who wrote a book on heaney and had to cut all quotations over >> three lines. > > >yep, that's it. or 10%... > >best, >jk And let me add as both a poet & a critic, that this is a drag. I certainly wouldn't mind someone quoting a whole poem if they were then discussing it at some length. And I really feel that for certain kinds of discussion, having the whole short poem there really helps. I like to point to things as I talk about them. But like the person on Heaney, I had to maul Ondaatje's poems, quoting a line or two here & there & hoping any reader had a book by her side to glance at while reading my discussions. Yuck. Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm My roof was once firm yet now it cannot even keep the stars out. Christopher Dewdney %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%