Peter Cudmore asked me to forward this -- he's at the wrong e-address at the
moment to send directly to the list.
R.
-----Original Message-----
From: Shore Poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 October 2006 01:57
To: 'Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
poetics'
Subject: RE: 'drunk poet's society' (Guardian story, August)
"Sir," said Mr Milestone, "you will have the goodness to make a distinction
between the picturesque and the beautiful."
"Will I?" said Sir Patrick, "och! but I won't. For what is beautiful? That
which pleases the eye. And what pleases the eye? Tints variously broken and
blended. Now, tints variously broken and blended constitute the
picturesque."
"Allow me," said Mr Gall. "I distinguish the picturesque and the
beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and
distinct character, which I call unexpectedness."
"Pray, sir," said Mr Milestone, "by what name do you distinguish this
character, when a person walks round the grounds for the second time?"*
Mr Gall bit his lips, and inwardly vowed to revenge himself on Milestone,
by cutting up his next publication.
Thomas Love Peacock, _Headlong Hall_
(http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/Headlong.html)
I love that quote, which seems appropriate to the apocryphal event in
question.
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 30 October 2006 01:23
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'drunk poet's society' (Guardian story, August)
>
> This HAS to be apocryphal! -
>
> 'after the Cambridge Marxist-obscurantist poet Jeremy Prynne told the
> Newcastle poet Tom Pickard to keep his young son quiet during a
> reading, Pickard went outside and smashed his Land Rover into Prynne's
> half-timbered Morris Oxford saloon.'
>
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