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jenks replied to the thread Spendy learns about poetry and luke and woops and benny and jenks help teach him things.I think a lot about rhythm and structure when I teach poetry - mainly because so often students just want to talk about the 'meaning'... -
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Not too late jenks you can come here and school a young whippersnapper. I've been thinking about rhythm a lot, meter, where it comes... -
Behold this festering heap of codswallop, masquerading as profound thought! This utterly incoherent twaddle is a masterclass in spouting...
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jenks replied to the thread Spendy learns about poetry and luke and woops and benny and jenks help teach him things.I don’t think I even knew this thread existed and now I feel bad for not acknowledging it.
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Prynne on going to America in the early part of his writing career: "Gradually I became less cocksure. It made me have strong...
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jenks replied to the thread Herman Melville.Billy Budd Benito Bartleby There’s some short stories but those three - two novellas and a short story are the best things in my opinion
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Finished Moby Dick now, best novel I've ever read. What's his best book after this? If it's even half as good it'll be worth reading.
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I love this one too, so beautiful - "bound in the rise and fall: learning to wish always for more" Moon Poem JH Prynne The night is...
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jenks replied to the thread American Artlessness.The OED - the widely accepted authoritative source of English in the world. But of course you don’t accept it. Obviously.
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Flowery writing as usual Barney. Yes Rice was the star but don’t you think you could have noticed Trossard’s role in the third goal? I...
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jenks replied to the thread Roiling football blather.As two Spurs fans watching Arsenal last night, my son and I had to admit those two Rice goals were ridiculous. Courtois possibly...
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jenks replied to the thread American Artlessness.Frost sought Pound out when he arrived in London on the 1910s - it wasn’t a great success “when Frost and Pound met, Pound looked at...
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jenks replied to the thread American Artlessness.Anyway. Back to Frost. Found this from Paris Review that I found interesting about how Frost is more complex than he’s often given...
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jenks replied to the thread American Artlessness.As I said I don’t think Frost lacks art, knowledge or skill.