[lbo-talk] Blake's "London"

[Carrol Cox]

On 10/11/2011 10:08 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:42 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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>> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>>>> Overall, I think it is the most perfect poem in the English language. I mean if there has to be one such.
>>> Keats's "To Autumn"? Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving"? Lots of competition!
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>> I have to say that Paradise Lost pisses all over this shit.  really.
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> I wouldn't put it that way. Different scales, different genres. PL is fucking terrific though. I happened to start reading it a few months ago on my iPhone when my car was being fixed - hadn't looked at it in 30 years. Amazing.
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> Doug

I had read large parts of it as an unndergrad. Then when I was in the 
Air Force I was CQ one night for the squadron. I took a copy of PL 
along, and read it through between 9pm and 6am. Endlessly exciting.

Carrol