Comments disabled Am I missing something here? I don't own a television (I do, but I don't have that convertor box and it's easier to say that I don't own a T.V.).
Thanks for the tree. It took awhile to get connected to the web in the new apartment, but it was nice to be greeted by the stars on my return.
Just wanted to wish you and your family Nick a Merry Christmas.
Thank you Nick. I do appreciate you telling me that. I'll go check you comments.
I finally got to sit down and read your poem. I commented. I hope it was helpful, but I enjoyed the read nonetheless. A funny thing (things that begin like that are rarely funny): Your short story Shop Talk pops into my head from time to time and although I found that the description of the tie stood out awkwardly, it is the very description that sticks to my mind. That story has something to it Virg.
I'm never sure if I should post poems on the boards any more. I would like your thoughts on my poem that I entered in the Autumn Poetry contest. I posted it in as a blog, here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=9173.
I'm such a tool. I have a book, Critical Theory Since Plato, that has Wordsworth preface to the second edition as well as Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and letters of Keats. I stopped reading it after being turned off by Plato and discovering that Poetics wasn't the literary theory that it is held to be, but more of an analysis of the structure of the successful Greek drama. You did once again my dear friend. Thanks for leading me out of "a forest dark". I've read a few of the poems in the Keats collection and he is definitely a keeper: Give me Women, Wine, and Snuff ... and Keats!
Thanks. You should be able to find Wordsworth on line. But don't throw the Keats out. he's great.
Damn! Where were you when I was at the bookstore. Thanks. I know a bit about Wordsworth, but it wasn't until I paid that I remembered that Keats is considered a second generation Romantic. I get both Wordsworth and Coleridge for the price of one! Now that's a bargain. Luckily, I can read it online, but there's nothing like reading while curled up in a chair.
Oh I think I would start with Wordsworth. He started the Romantic movement. Read about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth. And you should check through Lyrical Ballads, the book that started it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads. There is an essay that goes along with Lyrical Ballads, I think it was the introduction, that is a statement of aesthetic objectives (for lack of a better term) that really identifies the objexctives iof the Romantic movement. A must read. Check that, it's a Preface, not an Introduction.
