POETS Day! Nancy Cunard
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] The work week’s nearly finished, at least technically; barely a few hours left. Truth is it was over the moment you went to lunch. What are you accomplishing? You’re not getting anything done between now and quitting time. Cut out and stop pretending. Make it a POETS Day…
POETS Day! Sappho
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Make it POETS Day and Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. *** I read that 5th century BC Athenian book sellers probably sold supplementary Sappho material. My first thought…
POETS Day! Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Probably not Shakespeare
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Make it POETS Day and Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. *** In 1857, Delia Bacon published The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded in which she expounded…
POETS Day! Oscar Wilde
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Take a POETS Day. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** Mark Twain delivered this devastating comeback at a cocktail party when… or maybe it…
POETS Day! “Little Gidding” the Fourth of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] “Poets do not rightly achieve their renown for saying anything new, however, or for saying anything that any reasonable thoughtful, feeling person should not already know by the time he or she has reached some measure of advanced adulthood. Rather, we expect poets to share the common experience in…
POETS Day! William Barnes
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Take a POETS Day. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** When last we saw the name Coventry Patmore in this space, he was getting…
POETS Day! Poet-pourri
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Take a POETS Day. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** I read a lot of poetry that I like but don’t write about. There…
POETS Day! The Scoundrel, Sir John Suckling
You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Take a POETS Day. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. First, a little verse. *** This week I turned cartwheels in the surf. I exuberated. One passer-by was heard to exclaim, “By Goodness! He’s filled…
POETS Day! The Surprising Alice Meynell
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] I found Alice Meynell in Yeats’s Oxford Book of Modern Verse. The Oxford verse series indexes by poem number, rather than page. So if you look in the back for Meynell’s “I am the Way,” you find it referenced as number 32, meaning the thirty-second poem in the volume rather…
POETS Day! WH Auden’s “Musée de Beaux Arts”
[This entry is cross posted at ordinary-times.com] You’re still at work? What do you think you’re getting done between now and quitting time? Cut out and stop pretending. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. *** I’ve never heard of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. I’ve read about him. Until earlier this week I knew he was a Dutch…
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