http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/small-busy-flames/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/small-busy-flames/#comment-1235 Robert Schwab Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:34:44 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=447#comment-1235 Valuable post, Stephen, thanks. I think more modern, established poets should be talking up what they find in their scholarship regarding the classic poets in English, It helps we amateurs find inspiration, practical advice in the craft, and solutions for our own verse by reviewing the masters once again. I totally agree many great lines can be found in the poems and writing of poets whose anthologized work gets the most exposure. Yeats is incredibly rich, in that regard. To read through his entire body of work in poetry is constantly revelatory and rewarding. It's hard to find a bad poem among them. I will look for the book. I'm not sure you mentioned the author/editor, unless it was Richard Dawkins. But I'm sure it will be easy to find, even if not so easy to get a copy of. Robert Schwab Valuable post, Stephen, thanks.
I think more modern, established poets should be talking up what they find in their scholarship regarding the classic poets in English, It helps we amateurs find inspiration, practical advice in the craft, and solutions for our own verse by reviewing the masters once again.
I totally agree many great lines can be found in the poems and writing of poets whose anthologized work gets the most exposure. Yeats is incredibly rich, in that regard. To read through his entire body of work in poetry is constantly revelatory and rewarding. It’s hard to find a bad poem among them.
I will look for the book. I’m not sure you mentioned the author/editor, unless it was Richard Dawkins. But I’m sure it will be easy to find, even if not so easy to get a copy of.
Robert Schwab
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/small-busy-flames/#comment-1234 Alicia (A.E.) Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:29:43 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=447#comment-1234 What a nifty book! I sometimes show students <a href="http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/To_Mrs_Reynolds.htm" rel="nofollow">"To Mrs. Reynold's Cat"</a> without telling them who it's by. Of course, that poem appears deliberately and playfully mock-epic in tone ("grand climacteric", "prithee" and so on). And it has some real moments (dainty wrists, and the wheezing and the last line about the glass-bottled wall). But the poem always seems to stump them. Well, it ties in with your cat poem post too! What a nifty book! I sometimes show students “To Mrs. Reynold’s Cat” without telling them who it’s by. Of course, that poem appears deliberately and playfully mock-epic in tone (“grand climacteric”, “prithee” and so on). And it has some real moments (dainty wrists, and the wheezing and the last line about the glass-bottled wall). But the poem always seems to stump them. Well, it ties in with your cat poem post too!
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