Believe me when I say I take that sonnet tradition
into account.
Hal
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On Oct 14, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
> Given that we write either into or against a tradition, I don't see
> how we can avoid taking it into account.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Blinkin Sonnets!
>
>
>> Don't you think about the tradition you want to write into? I
>> certainly do, if I want to do such a thing. Maybe you consider such
>> thinking frivolous.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On 10/14/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> In one hundred years we've gone from a poetic puritanism which
>>> condemned anything not traditional as frivolous to a poetic
>>> puritanism
>>> which condemns anything traditional as frivolous. Like some French
>>> guy once said, the more different something gets, the more it's the
>>> same damn thing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ===================================
>>>
>>> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
>>>
>>> ===================================
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Roman Proverb
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