[lbo-talk] Re: Rochester

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Feb 6 07:28:06 PST 2004


joanna bujes wrote:
> Rochester was the most unconsciously good poet ever....

The opening couplet of "A Ramble in St. James's Park":

Much wine had passed, with grave discourse, Of who fucks who, and who does worse

Whatever one might say of him the man who wrote that was not _unconscious_ in his writing. "With grave discourse" is worthy of Ben Jonson.

Carrol



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