Sorry Jeff,
I'd missed the endnotes, but also missed the similarity in register with
the quotes from Sydney and Fletcher. No polemical import here either!
I don't see Forrest-Thompson's aesthetic nor for that matter I.A.Richards's,
as sketched in the article, as "conservative". Though I've a feeling we've
disagreed in this area before.
Best, Jamie
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From: Jeffrey Side
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:32 PM
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Subject: Re: "Multiple Registers, Intertextuality and Boundaries of
Interpretation in Veronica Forrest-Thompson"
Jamie, I do mention Tennyson in the endnotes:
4. Forrest-Thompson, in New British Poetries, p.119. The line, ‘I lie alone.
I am aweary, aweary’ alludes to the lines in Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’: ‘She
said, “I am aweary, aweary,/I would that I were dead!”’.
The references to Sydney and Fletcher are merely to illustrate the lines'
similarity in register to lines by poets of their era. The reference has no
polemical import.
Hi Jeff – if you’re talking about intertextuality, in the lines “I am
aweary, aweary,/ I would that I were dead” the references you give from
Sydney and Fletcher are quite remote. The lines are a direct quotation from
Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’ (which doesn’t necessarily make them any better).
Best,
Jamie
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