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Hauntingly evocative of The Man in Black, I find: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lxn48wSiCzg (Record it now, before YouTube removes it for breach of copyright.)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh6vWP5- ... ed&search=

Marvellous stuff.

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Good stuff. When I go on my cycling weekends, my mate usually brings along a copy of the Viz Profanisarus to regale us with such tasteless gems such as: dreadnoughts, dangle-berries, winnits and tag-nuts. Hours of fun. C For definitions of "dreadnought", etc, with helpful illustrative quo...

Has the ancient "flyting" form of poetry completely disappeared (for obvious reasons), or does it still survive somewhere ? Anyone know ?

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Hi there Keith, And while I'm on about omissions, how about hymnodists ? (If there's a danger of the site getting swamped by them, it could be limited only to those in Hymns A & M, or by brutal diktat - "Sorry, not part of the canon".) I'm thinking of people like Bishop Heber (of Holy,...

Sorry I haven't posted anything for a while - I'd forgotten the password. Anyway, why isn't there any more than a grudging little mention under "other poets" of Robert Louis Stevenson on the site ? It's easy enough to find information (try Wikipedia for starters) on his death and burial (v...

Everyone will surely know this classic opening (from Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess) It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. But how many know this recording of his Oscar acceptance speech: http:...

And for anyone who didn't know, never, ever post your own email in its real form on any publicly viewable message board like this. Spam merchants - and possibly worse - will harvest it. If you do want to post it, then fiddle around with it a bit, to confuse the automatic electronic harvesters. So, i...

camus wrote:mmmmmmmmmmm, perhaps 50 years ago.

And if you mean North East I lived in the North East and rarely heard the word thee. Cept from the strange man on the corner who still keeps whippets.

http://www.vocaboly.com/forums/ftopic6575-0-asc-0.html (especially page 2)

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camus wrote:
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"Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee"

Note the comedic use of "Thee" archaic indeed but funny as fuck.

"Thee" is in fact contemporary dialect (esp. NE), just like "lairy".

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Got it ! The full line reads: XXXXXXX "Blow, you buggers, blow! Keep the thing from freezing!" Note the masterly assonance and alliteration within each half-line, and the abrupt change to a more urgent tempo coincident with the caesura. I believe it is to one Peter Cooke, at the time a reg...

On a related note, I wonder if any of your subscribers could supply the missing words from the following. It was first published in Private Eye in about 1970 (coincidentally, at roughly the same time as the facsimile of the original typescript of The Waste Land was published, with Eliot's manuscript...

Not at all. Actually, I wasn't just talking about learning poetry by heart in schools (though I fully agree with you on that, and on the dismal attitude of too many soi-disant teachers to the subject), but really reciting it, out loud, in front of an audience, as used to be done in Victorian music h...

Don't mention it. I really would like to see a revival of popular reciting, especially by children.

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Could it be a variant of "The Lily and the Rose", on http://www.alrunaspoetry.com/ ? If so, it seems to be anonymous. It looks as though it may have been meant for popular recital - Bring it back ! -, which would go some way towards explaining the instability of the text.

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Uncertainty for Rome's Protestant cemetery Barbara McMahon in Rome Monday June 13, 2005 Guardian The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday June 16, 2005 In the article below we stated that Shelley was drowned in 1882 and not 1822, the actu...

<center>testing, testing, testing...</center> Yes, it works. Thank you. The key is to <u>dis</u>able BBCode in your profile. There's a list of basic HTML tags at http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm , if anybody's interested. But what you want with poetry is not, generally, to centre every...

See if you can find Peter Roach's English Phonetics and Phonology. It's fairly elementary first-year undergraduate stuff, but it covers all the areas you seem to be interested in.

It looks as though poems when 'posted' always come out left-aligned. Can anyone tell me how to 'post' a poem so that it appears balanced about the centre-line? That's how I typed it, but it comes up left-aligned, even after going through an edit. Other writers must have found this; the appearance o...

cameron wrote:Here here!

Or rather "Hear ! hear !" (cf. "Oyez ! Oyez !"). And yet, not so long ago...

cameron wrote:Some people may argue that spelling is not important but I feel that it is crucial...

:roll::roll::roll::roll::roll: :!:

This is another old creative writing chestnut, but a very important one. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' is a hell of a lot better (I think) than: 'I think you're a bit of all right' because by employing simile Shakespeare paints a picture for us - thereby showing us how he feels about hi...

I have to admit that I've been disappointed by the number of poems posted that contain glaring spelling mistakes. Some people may argue that spelling is not important but I feel that it is crucial if you want people to take your work seriously. Quite right, Headmistress. "Must try harder"...

cameron wrote:
RODE the/SIX hundred

We, on the other hand, have always read it as

RODE the six / HUNDred

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Glad you like it. These two are interesting too:

http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1371 ,

and

http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1159

(Click on Hear it.)

I have been a life long fan of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling but feel that lately his reputation has diminished due to claims that he is 'imperialist' and even 'racist'. I feel that this is a great shame as he is undoubtedly one of the country's finest poets. Does anyone else agree that he has been...