MAX ADVICE I would in this situation lose his email address-take dog out for
a walk throw some sticks -have a nice coffee-pop in an 'op'shop(as you
Ozzers quaintly call a charity shop)
P sympathetic non academic P
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Subject: vowel gradation?
I'm no further forward with Colin L Dean and Gamahucher Press, folks, but
having
idly emailed (about James's Turn of the Screw) a certain Dr Clayton Burns
whose
email to the editor of the tls was posted on his weblog, Dr Clayton has
emailed
me mentioning in the same breath, this:
I am working on consonant and vowel gradation in poetry (there will
have to be a revision of practical critical terms since even the power of
symbolic chiasmus in "Sailing to Byzantium," "The Sick Rose," and "Design"
goes unnoticed). The /nt/ and /nd/ gradation in Cummings' "The Cambridge
ladies" complements the long "a" and ash gradation ("Cambridge ladies" and
"moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy"). "After Apple-Picking" is a
good example of "e" gradation, "The Sick Rose" of "i," "Ode to a
Nightingale" of "o," and "Daddy" of "u." Since vowel gradation is so common
in irregular verbs, you would have thought that by now critics would have
noticed it in poetry. Shakespeare's sonnet 97 is a fascinating case.
Clayton.
Hmm, I do seem to remember chancing on vowel gradation in poetry discussions
a
while back, without my getting involved. I should like to email back at
least a
half-informed response...if anyone on PoetryEtc has advice...
Max at Cooee in Melbourne
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