tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post3095892172075991603..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Poet Laureate Prynne?Bryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-79662699109007444712009-04-08T08:37:00.000+00:002009-04-08T08:37:00.000+00:00処女処女処女援交援交援交援交援助交際SEXセフレセフレセフレセックスフレンドメル友メル友募集メル友募...<A HREF="http://pksp.jp/shojyokyoshi/" REL="nofollow">処女</A><BR/><A HREF="http://hp.atura.jp/free/hp/nanashojyo/" REL="nofollow">処女</A><BR/><A HREF="http://r9.mobilestyle.jp/slowsex/" REL="nofollow">処女</A><BR/><A HREF="http://rank.srank.tv/enkoaniota/" REL="nofollow">援交</A><BR/><A HREF="http://r9.mobilestyle.jp/urabaito/" REL="nofollow">援交</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.rankingwalker.net/?eekodane" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-64559084150682802172008-11-27T02:28:00.000+00:002008-11-27T02:28:00.000+00:00Oblivious of geldingthe sergeantry can start. What...Oblivious of gelding<BR/>the sergeantry can start. Whatever’s missing<BR/>—glossary, granaries, ‘morn’—<BR/>missing isn’t withdrawn. <BR/><BR/>Pouts, tweets the organjay<BR/>happy he is paid. <BR/>No ruckus brought no sullen trade<BR/>doubly-negatively to defray. <BR/><BR/>This is immortality surely!<BR/>Betwine the carrots.<BR/>Entrap in court the clearly<BR/>solvent parrots. <BR/><BR/>In Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-12007367293342131012008-11-27T01:50:00.000+00:002008-11-27T01:50:00.000+00:00Here's JN-T:'A decade later and cash-for-honours q...Here's JN-T:<BR/><BR/>'A decade later and cash-for-honours questions make Hill's redonning of the prophet's white suit timely. You have to read between the lines, though. "On Reading Milton and the English Revolution ", for instance, is ostensibly a meditation on the Civil War historian Christopher Hill. But the eighth stanza has this Hill concerned with a more recently "dishonoured / and Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12539078553577303937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-72277041830152527662008-11-26T16:12:00.000+00:002008-11-26T16:12:00.000+00:00Does it have to be someone who is still alive? The...Does it have to be someone who is still alive? They should give Thomas Hardy a go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-30896573609231214722008-11-26T16:11:00.000+00:002008-11-26T16:11:00.000+00:00Ah thanks Jonathan - the Prince of Wales indeed. A...Ah thanks Jonathan - the Prince of Wales indeed. A fitting tribute...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-88005493381681870312008-11-26T16:00:00.000+00:002008-11-26T16:00:00.000+00:00It's quite a long footnote, Bryan. At least 80 wor...It's quite a long footnote, Bryan. At least 80 words, maybe 100Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-57934312983758080402008-11-26T15:46:00.000+00:002008-11-26T15:46:00.000+00:00That’s Austin indeed Nige (but “he is no better” -...That’s Austin indeed Nige (but “he is no better” - it’s about the Prince of Wales).<BR/><BR/>After Tennyson died c. 1890 the post of laureate remained unfilled for about five years. The deadly Alfred Austin was eventually given the job, after Morris had been ruled out on political grounds and Swinburne on moral.<BR/><BR/>As a younger man Austin had himself denounced the office:<BR/><BR/>Degraded jonathan lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986943428040953041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-37973438221566883002008-11-26T15:12:00.000+00:002008-11-26T15:12:00.000+00:00Well said, Nige...though Armitage can hardly be bl...Well said, Nige...though Armitage can hardly be blamed for writing something that Larkin didn't. <BR/><BR/>Also, you could say of Larkin's work "Imagine if Shakespeare had written it."<BR/><BR/>Armitage would be a decent enough laureate, but because of what he is, not because of his failings.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-56899557432736289592008-11-26T14:59:00.000+00:002008-11-26T14:59:00.000+00:00Armitage smoked quite nicely, thanks Brit - deft, ...Armitage smoked quite nicely, thanks Brit - deft, easy, fluent (but think how Larkin would have done it...). He's the man for the job, surely. <BR/>And that's a nice one, Susan...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-14913841959163960342008-11-26T14:54:00.000+00:002008-11-26T14:54:00.000+00:00How late it was, how lateHester Prynne is at the g...How late it was, how late<BR/>Hester Prynne is at the gate<BR/>Her letter a faded scarlet now<BR/>No harlot she's a starlet now<BR/>Progenitress of poets...and Pearls<BR/><BR/><BR/>I want to see more Prynne poems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-88722591500218815432008-11-26T14:12:00.000+00:002008-11-26T14:12:00.000+00:00'cantilevered by light' - lovely. i quite like Arm...'cantilevered by light' - lovely. i quite like Armitage just because he grew up near me in Huddersfield so he's not a slick Southron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-90600248229617770932008-11-26T13:46:00.000+00:002008-11-26T13:46:00.000+00:00A VisionThe future was a beautiful place, once.Rem...A Vision<BR/><BR/>The future was a beautiful place, once.<BR/>Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town<BR/>on public display in the Civic Hall?<BR/>The ring-bound sketches, artists' impressions,<BR/><BR/>blueprints of smoked glass and tubular steel,<BR/>board-game suburbs, modes of transportation<BR/>like fairground rides or executive toys.<BR/>Cities like dreams, cantilevered by light.<BR/><BR/>Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-20296760986094624342008-11-26T12:24:00.000+00:002008-11-26T12:24:00.000+00:00Along the wires the electric message came. She is...Along the wires the electric message came. <BR/>She is no better, she is much the same. <BR/><BR/>Alfred Austin?Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-45004294007145462592008-11-26T12:23:00.001+00:002008-11-26T12:23:00.001+00:00Appleyard, Bryan, passim. That would actually BE a...Appleyard, Bryan, passim. That would actually BE a life.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-29281464553438938292008-11-26T12:23:00.000+00:002008-11-26T12:23:00.000+00:00Don't you just pine for the good old days of John ...Don't you just pine for the good old days of John Betjeman<BR/><BR/>Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!<BR/>It isn't fit for humans now,<BR/>There isn't grass to graze a cow.<BR/>Swarm over, Death!<BR/><BR/>If you can pen a poem about bleedin' Slough, man the worlds your oyster.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5022188910834722282008-11-26T11:55:00.000+00:002008-11-26T11:55:00.000+00:00Appleyard, Bryan n.What a commentary on a life.Appleyard, Bryan n.<BR/>What a commentary on a life.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-19500328315774723552008-11-26T11:46:00.000+00:002008-11-26T11:46:00.000+00:00Bit of a creative death sentence, being Poet Laure...Bit of a creative death sentence, being Poet Laureate, as much as winning the Nobel. Hence it should only go to those with little creative talent. The hell with it, i'll do it, i could do with the free booze.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-6410596052724659252008-11-26T11:10:00.000+00:002008-11-26T11:10:00.000+00:00Am doing index of next book -- Waiting for the Et...Am doing index of next book -- Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England available at a giveaway price from a fine book store near you in February 2009! -- and have just typed<BR/><BR/>Appleyard, Bryan 313 n.<BR/><BR/>I quote Bryan's thoughts on Conrad Black who, now I come to think of it, would have made a damn sight better poet laureate than Andrew MotionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-84143236656503728332008-11-26T11:04:00.000+00:002008-11-26T11:04:00.000+00:00Well, no poet compared to Hill, say - they're in ...Well, no poet compared to Hill, say - they're in a different game, which rules Hill out of being laureate and rules Armitage in. <BR/>Go and cheer yourself up on Nigeness, Brit...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-53522898725992255522008-11-26T10:51:00.000+00:002008-11-26T10:51:00.000+00:00Armitage 'no poet'? That's uncalled for.At least h...Armitage 'no poet'? That's uncalled for.<BR/><BR/>At least he, Cope or McGough would likely attempt to just frigging write about stuff, instead of onanistically warbling on and on about their own warbling, which is what most of the supposedly high-brow poets do.<BR/><BR/>(I haven't had much sleep lately so am in a tolerably foul mood.)Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-67730515612723447482008-11-26T10:12:00.000+00:002008-11-26T10:12:00.000+00:00Simon Armitage, I reckon - fluent, accessible, no ...Simon Armitage, I reckon - fluent, accessible, no poet - perfect for the job. I was going to post as much...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.com