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10-12-2017, 09:01 PM
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Page 40, 7 October 2017, The Spectator
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Originally Posted by Allen Tice
John Whitworth....But it [Gray's "Elegy"] does have a certain aroma of complacent sentimental wishful and remote nostalgia that I sometimes like to wallow in. And so does your poem ["Autumn"]. Neither is blazoned with staggering click-bait, but neither is hopelessly doomed for the bin. Now, I hear the ominous balrogs of luminous perfection baying on the hills as they smell prey, and my poor Shetland trembles, so I shall tuck this of yours into my sleeve and duck through the postern.
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Printed exactly as posted on this site. It looks better in type than on screen.
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10-13-2017, 03:41 AM
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It gives pleasure in both forms, Allen.
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10-13-2017, 09:19 AM
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Charmant. Congratulations, Allen! (Not sure whether from column or article or letter, but no matter.)
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10-13-2017, 09:54 AM
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Hey, I posted this to draw attention to Whitworth's publication of a poem that I Iiked and which got faint praise or various damns on Eratosphere (the crit thead still exists and is linked in the quote). Congratulate John (pas moi)
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10-13-2017, 01:48 PM
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Congratulations all around!
RM
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