AM or PM? Either works fine for me as I've already voted.
AM or PM? Either works fine for me as I've already voted.
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PM, AM is too soon.Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Yes sounds fine to me, time and top 5.
(JBI, you have put Gautier in twice.)
As Dante and Shakespeare are definitely poets, I'll stick with them. The first post doesn't exclude drama, unless it's implicit, but, if so, I'm not "in" enough to "get" that.
Last edited by mal4mac; 02-22-2010 at 07:32 AM.
I think you miss one of the main points though Mac which is time. I think it was more or less a unanimous decision upon this point when it was discussed here as was the want to focus on a poem or group of poems:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=50841
As I say, I would be very happy to dig into Dante in particular myself, though I don’t think this is perhaps the best time and place for it personally. I can’t re-read the whole of Purgatory and digest my thoughts on this with everything else I am reading at the minute, but I can happily manage a few poems. Maybe a few extracts of this would work, but then you would be taking it out of the context of the drama which I don't think would be that helpful to the overall picture of it.
Last edited by LitNetIsGreat; 02-22-2010 at 12:51 PM.
If you are scoring, change the bottom one to Robert Lowell then.
Right OK.
Shakespeare and Goethe wrote in verse (at least most of the time), but I wouldn't consider Faust or any of Shakespeare's plays poetry. As for Dante, this really doesn't seem like the place for it. I don't need to tell you how isolating one section of the Comedy takes away from the whole; certainly taking individual cantos would as well.
I don't know. I just assumed we would be discussing lyrical poetry.
OK Neely... we're awaiting the results.
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OK, I've added them up but the results are at home, I'll post them later at around 6pm my time, sorry.
OK, this is the leaderboard according to my calculations:
1 Leopardi – Unspecified 51
2 Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair 38
3 Browning – Unspecified 35
4 Federico Garcia-Lorca - Selected Poems 33
5 Gautier – Unspecified 31
6 Baudelaire – Les Fleurs du Mal 30
7 Shi Jing - Book of Songs - Ancient Chinese Poetry 29
8 Rainer Maria Rilke - Unspecified 28
9 Simic – Unspecified 27
10 Petrarch – Canzoniere 24
What do we do now, re-vote the top 5 to pick a final choice?
If we are doing that,here's my choice. If not, I'll re-do whatever method you decide.
The Top 5 in my order:
Lorca
Gautier
Neruda
Leopardi
Browning
As I said, if you want it done a different way, I don't mind.
I could go with any one of these five but as it is here is my five choices in order:
1. Gautier
2. Browning
3. Leopardi
4. Garcia-Lorca
5. Neruda
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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Neruda
Leopardi
Browning
Lorca
Gautier
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1. Gautier
2. Leopardi
3. Browning
4. Garcia-Lorca
5. Neruda
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