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|    Will Dockery to All    |
|    Re: One of Herrick's epigrams for your p    |
|    24 Feb 26 04:01:38    |
      From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid              mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:              > > Will-Dockery wrote:       > >       > >> HarryLime wrote:       > >>       > >>> Will-Dockery wrote:       > >>>       > >>>> George J. Dance wrote:       > >>>>       > >>>>> Will Dockery wrote:       > >>>>>       > >>>>>> HarryLime 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 clarified is how limited his understanding of the       English language is.       > >>       > >> Of course, anyone who's read his "edits" of poems by you and the late,       unlamented [Zod]       > >       > >       > > Zod isn't dead, in fact he's alive and well.       > >       > > We spoke on the telephone a few days ago.       > >       > > Like Jim Senetto, Zod simply doesn't post on Usenet newsgroups at this       time.       > >       > > And so it goes.       >       > General Zod is a comic book super villain who has no existence in the real       world.              Says Harry Lime, a fictional character in an Orson Welles movie.                     Zod is the moniker of a former regular of this newsgoup.              > xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx is drug-addicted, alcoholic pissbum who, may or may not be       dead. Either way, no one gives shit.              Yet you can't seem to get Zod out of your thoughts.              😏              > This is a response to the post seen at:       > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=658534096#658534096                     --       Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:       https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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