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Max, now you've hit a Proper Poetry Debate topic: Wordsworth. I won't try to enter it, can only remembering, as a student, enjoying the idea of 'cherubs trailing clouds of immortality' [glory should be in that quote somewhere] and linking that hint with the ever-loved RW Emerson's 'Oversoul' [what's not to like about a man who writes forceful essays on such as 'Self-Reliance'?], and all of that hooked up with Edgar Cayce, reincarnation, and karma. But ready your wife for those of us who're decidedly _not_ Wordsworth admirers, Max! There're those, of whom I'm one, who feel that his sister Dorothy's poems and notes fed his best work. [Asidely: she insisted that poems' figures carry the poems' messages----that there be no explaining.] A rodent may have a go at gnawing apart your wife's appreciation for W, as well. oh dear oh dear all I can say is that it's the second rodent that gets the cheese. Best, Judy 2008/9/17 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> > This wife of mine, o Judy, came into my life doing first-year university > Eng lit > part-time while theraping full-time. > > She loves poetry, selectively, Wordsworth above all. > > Why can't we all be Wordsworths...? > > Max > > Quoting Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>: > > > Tell your wife she should be referring you to the words "precocious", > > "formidably intellectual", "generous-to-a-fault", and "ready for the > beach". > > [She may need and enjoy a holiday from therapising other folks' speech] > > > > Judy > > > > 2008/9/17 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> > > > > > Yes, Jim, I run the risk of sounding offensive. > > > > > > It relates to my wife the speech therapist saying I show aspy symptoms, > and > > > that > > > it explains the twodimensionality of what I write; and her > disappointment > > > generally in contemporary poetry. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au >