Catherine Eisner
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Saturday, 6 December 2014
No Poetic Makeweights, Thank You, Pastry Cooks Excepted . . . . . . . or Finishing School for Versifiers (part 2).
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When is a metrical makeweight ever acceptable to a poet? Padding? Never! Tennyson’s Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white , for ex...
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Mr and Mrs Anon.
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To return to the theme of the 'mute inglorious' Mr and Mrs Miltons so despised by Kingsley Amis (see my September posting, Commoners...
A solitary truck ... euphonious assonance.
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Talking of poetasters. I should note frankly that memories of my youthful experiences when working on an academic publisher’s poetry list we...
Monday, 26 September 2011
Commoners' Rights to the Heroic Quatrain
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I wonder who remembers now Kingsley Amis's reactionism* in citing Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard as 'a great Right...
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