Yeah, but that Christina Rossetti writes some steamy stuff there, is that kind of fake archaism? With a bit of friendly advice she could go a long way. I get the impression the rest of the list was just what landed up in the critic's in-basket during the last two months - so-called basket-cases.
Halvard, I would make that Das Lied von der Erde (intended as a symphony but M frightened of number 9) 9 (he was right, he didn't finish another), 6, 3, then 4, 7, 5, then 1, 8 - and 10 as the one he didn't finish not strictly ratable. My Haydn symphony top 104 goes 88, 98, 49 ...snore
mj
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From: David Bircumshaw
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Subject: Re: 10 best?
I think ' weird' might be an appropriate response.
2009/4/21 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Not necessarily my choice, but, well....
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> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-ten-best-poetry-books-1671548.html
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> (for one thing I woudnt include anthologies in such a list)
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> Doug
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> There's the wind and the rain
> And the mercy of the fallen
> Who say they have no claim to know what's right
> Dar Williams
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