Another poet, lost to the wind?
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Another poet, lost to the wind?
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A baldy classic.
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JB still has that touch.
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Deciphering it was fun.
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Our favorite shepherd is writing again?
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I think it was Emerson who said God's foremost feature is his readiness to laugh.
What?
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It is a great line.
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Time to come back!
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Lots of junk in here.
Literature does something nobody here has mentioned yet. Literature teaches complex verbal expression. And people use this complexity to mask ignorance.
There's a ton of...
Seems a bit like a fraudulent hock of crap?
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You're all picking the wrong Calvino!
The Cosmicomics. Definitive offering for 20th century Italian literature. Perhaps the small, regional author Giovanni Arpino?
But early than 1900, Jack of...
Oh, is he? Even the section that's written as a play? Even here? --
"Bald Pat who is bothered mitred the napkins. Pat is a waiter hard of his hearing. Pat is a waiter who waits while you wait. Hee...
Good point. Could easily see this, but not for his novels. Joyce is the exception, though, not the rule. And Joyce is regarded highly, and rightfully so, as a short story writer.
Yours truly...
The problem with these sad lists is-- how would you know?
Book lists are little better than advertising, or regurgitation. At least we might assume from Professor Bloom's list that he actually...
A re-read. It's a professional quality story.
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Might have to agree about Sylvia Plath. But Neruda??? *clears throat*...
How dare you!?!?
(Maybe a little biased).
What does this mean? Are you talking about publishing, or actual influence "in prose" (stylistics)?
This reader is no expert in the history of 20th century publishing. But the point that Zola, in...
You're not crap.
Here's something that is not crap, with a link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2xBaX5awlc
Consider this:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?66389-Cien-sonetos-de-amor&highlight=
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A fradulent hock of crap.
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How dare you!!!
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He's a breath of fresh air. Whatever you can say about the man, he spoke his mind. And he was challenging. He went straight for the idols, and with good purposes. Who else could so convincingly...
It's still not quite human, though.
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Wake up, old man!
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