tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750601976843429146.post8147760464022643705..comments2024-01-25T09:38:39.998+10:00Comments on Lady Godiva and Me: W.H.Auden, The Poet and the City. Attitudes towards poetry......Liam Guilarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04031376624826567522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750601976843429146.post-47864128501837211392015-03-24T01:55:06.133+10:002015-03-24T01:55:06.133+10:00Can I try for B & C?
B. The question is asked...Can I try for B & C?<br /><br />B. The question is asked in the negative when obviously the illiterate peasant _can_ be a poet. It has probably happened way more alot than Auden would admit to.<br /><br />C. Even extremely intelligent, perceptive, and worth-listening-to persons get it wrong sometimes or say the stupidest things. I hate to think if any of our blogs get scoured with a fine-toothed comb... some quotable inanity will surely arise.<br /><br />A. is harder. Perhaps he means the poet in question might be an arrogant sonofabitch who wouldn't consider bending an ear to the illiterate peasant. (It's obvious William Shakespeare didn't work that way.)David X. Novakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00333764838587758028noreply@blogger.com