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Unread 05-03-2001, 07:03 PM
Tim Murphy Tim Murphy is offline
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Dear C, The answer to Q 2 I don't know. The ancient languages and the Asian languages have produced spectacular poetry, and one would be hard pressed to find a modern European language of which that's not the case. You specify "lyrical." That would apply to all the Romance languages, and one could argue that the Germanic languages are more suited to the heroic, so why not let's single out the bastard child of both sides of the tree, English?

I've been doing a lot of radio and loving it. It's the natural place for poetry, and lord knows that if I could snap off Rush and Dr. Laura and Bruce Williams and just listen to Burton and Gielgud I would. Tomorrow is my local Public Television debut, which I dread. It is much more difficult to speak to a camera than a microphone, especially if you have, as they say, a face made for radio.
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