haha great quote Peter/Robin. philosophy with an additional guffaw
KS
On 30/10/06, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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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