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   From: shez@oldcity.f2s.com   
      
   In article <4223c4a3_1@127.0.0.1>, Pertial    
   writes   
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   >> My tastes in poetry range from the Sublime Shake spears sonnets, to the   
   >> outrageous Spike Milligans funny poems and verses. And a whole range in   
   >> between.   
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   >Oh my, well you do have quite a range!   
   >But wasn't that "Britney Spears", and not Shake Spears?   
   >Shake was before your time, I think.   
      
   Brittany Spears... isn't she some pop singer ?   
   I am afraid the singers I like would have died before you were born.   
   Besides I am a classical and opera fan not a pop music fan. Though some   
   modern songs have lyrics that are exceptional or music that touches the   
   soul its not often such songs or music comes along.   
      
      
   Shakespeare is an old favourite of mine, though my real interest lies   
   with Anglo Saxon England and even before that with the Celts... have you   
   heard the sagas by any chance. Beowulf perhaps   
      
   Gawrit seo raedan craeft sode I hwinsian galdorword foruwian ellorgast   
   raest gehealden seo onendeleasdaeg   
      
   Some of the epic poems are incredible and well worth reading either in   
   the original or translated.   
   Will Shakespeare is only a begining their was much before him, and their   
   will be much after.. Epic fantasy's  and myths come in all shapes and   
   sizes.   
    Have you read Mort'e de Arthure.... or Historia Regum Britannia by   
   Geoffrey of Monmouth The Canterbury tales.. Very jolly and very down to   
   earth. How about the Welsh cycle. The Mabinogiaon   
   The lay of Taliesin the bard.   
   If your talking poetry you need to go back a few thousand years and pick   
   up over the centuries the myths, lays, and sagas from great bards and   
   wordsmiths. It tends to make today's offerings look pale and wan in   
   comparison.. But then the people writing or singing or telling those   
   tales truly lived them...   
      
      
   If you have an interest in poetry then you must have an interest in   
   where the poetry came from, the great sagas and stories of our long ago   
   ancestors.   
   Or am I expecting to much.   
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   >(and some say that 16th century humor is dead)   
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