Catherine Eisner
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Tennyson
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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...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Lure of the List: Doomed Excavations of the Ur-Text and Other Futilities (Palimpsestic Texts Part 1)
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I studied the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins for GCE A Level Eng Lit, and I still refer to his On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialo...
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