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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will-Dockery wrote:   
   >> George J. Dance wrote:   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>>>> Karla wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>> In this little urn is laid   
   > >>>>>>>> Prudence Baldwin, once my maid,   
   > >>>>>>>> From whose happy spark here let   
   > >>>>>>>> Spring the purple violet.   
   > >>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>> Robert Herrick   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>> Nice little tribute, makes me think of one of my favorite Beatles   
   songs, "Dear Prudence."   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Poor Mr. Herrick is turning in his grave over that remark.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Have you ever come across a poem that *didn't* remind you of a 1960s   
   rock song?   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I'm not too far off from this guy, Frank Hudson, who envisioned Robert   
   Herrick in a blues mode:   
   > >>>>> https://frankhudson.org/2020/04/30/corinna-corinna-lets-go-a-maying/   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Harry Lime: Two dumbasses only double the dumbassery.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Dockery: Or, as us often the case, you just don't "get it."   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Here's the opening line of the article by Frank Hudson:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> "Robert Herrick wrote in the awkward 17th and 18th century era in   
   English poetry where if you aren’t Milton you get tabbed in the minor poet   
   folder."   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Here's the opening line of Wikipedia's bio on him:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> "Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 " buried 15 October 1674) was   
   a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric."   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Hmm... what's wrong with this picture?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I don't see anything wrong with either.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Can you enlighten me?   
   > >>   
   > >> There's nothing wrong with either of them, Will.   
   > >>   
   > >> Frank Hudson said that "Robert Herrick wrote in the awkward 17th and 18th   
   century era in English poetry ..."   
   > >>   
   > >> Wikipedia agrees with that, by noting that Herrick wrote in the 17th   
   century.   
   > >>   
   > >> HarryLiar is just trying to pretend those two statements contradict, in   
   > >> order to call Frank Hudson a "dumbass". Typical HarryLiar nonsense.   
   > >   
   > > Thanks for clarifying that, GJD.   
   >   
   > The only thing George xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx   
      
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