Everyone knows the 1805 version of The Prelude is better than the 1850 version — Wordsworth could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he’d left it alone. Reading through my parallel text edition, my eyes strayed over to the right-hand page from time to time, but usually not for long — the older […]
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W.H. Auden — ‘The Fall of Rome’
The causes of Auden’s move to the States have been debated ad nauseam, but here’s a minor side effect I’ve not seen anyone comment on: Caesar’s double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK On a pink official form. ‘The Fall of Rome’ Surely that’s an American accent in […]
Welcome (Back) to My Poetry Site
Well, it’s been a long break. Even longer than the break at Wishful Thinking. Partly it was down to simply being busy with other things — running my business, launching Lateral Action. And partly because I wasn’t happy having the poetry blog as an appendage to the Wishful Thinking site — as you can see, […]
Basho – Snow Business
Market people! I will sell you this hat with its snow-umbrella Via Basho