Jess wrote:
>Thomson of the Seasons is weak tea and mannered to boot. Smart, even in
>his pre-mad days, is much better than Thomson.
This seems like an excellent summary of much contemporary interest in
classic english verse - the fervour of Smart and Blake and Milton, not
Spenser and Thomson and Dryden.
edmund
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>Subject: Wonderful Coleridge anecdote
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:07:19 +0900
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>Thanks for that one. We're on digest here, so the words tumble down the
>chimney in a little pile and I must sort through them with a stick.
>
>Thomson of the Seasons is weak tea and mannered to boot. Smart, even in
>his pre-mad days, is much better than Thomson.
>
>No one here's interested in B.V.? Shame on you! Jess
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