This could start a trend:
"Ted Hughes wrote animal poems despite having long sideburns and odd ideas
about wombs."
"Today's poets are less likely to be hysterical or have disturbed lives than
the poets of 50 years ago."
Write your own now . . .
;-)
C
From: D G & C V Kennedy <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: D G & C V Kennedy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:44:58 +0100
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Summer Fun
Two gems from the intro to the latest Bloodaxe anthology Staying Alive: Real
Poems for Unreal Times
W. B. Yeats wrote great poetry despite having a highly confused love life
and muddled ideas drawn from a hotchpotch of philosophies…
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Today’s poets […] are much more tuned in to how people think about the world
and feel about themselves than the poets of 50 years ago.
