> You know, I've always felt guilty about the Romantics. No need. Wordsworth is hell. The French Romantics are too**, so it has to be something about the movement. (**Victor Hugo's a good poet, so perhaps Romantic poets are hell even when they're good?) But I like the idea behind "Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:-- We murder to dissect." but have always applied that to literary criticism, not to poetry. *Hey you can't leave us* Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:47 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Poetry x 2 = Sabbatical > You know, I've always felt guilty about the Romantics. I've always thought > and still do think that I belong among them, but the poetry of the Romantic > Movement defeats me. I can't stand to read it -- there are a few sonnets by > Keats and Coleridge and Shelley, but overall, I run screaming from their > poetry. A long while back, Mad Magazine had a parody of Wordsworth -- Once > I Wandered Lonely As a Clod. Apparently I'm not the only one at war with > the poetry of the Romantic period. > > > Mike Geary > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:25 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Poetry x 2 = Sabbatical > > > > for Mike (pity it isn't by a better poet) > > > > http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/411.html > > > > Judy > > --------------------------------------------------------------- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html