Saturday, August 21, 2004

More song covers i forgot: Melanie's amazing "Ruby Tuesday". Juice Newton- "Angel of the Morning". Elton John- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

"Tennyson's 'Fatima' (1832) is a cross-dressing poem, in that it speaks from the woman's point of view." --Margaret Reynolds, The Sappho Companion (2001)

And what about Sonnets from the Portuguese?

The forgery of a Dickinson poem by Mark Hofmann is the subject of The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall: "The Bible is an antique volume--/ written by faded Men..."

"Intermezzo: Venetian Nights.
I. Veneta Marina

The masts rise white to the stars,
White on the night of the sky,
Out of the water's night,
And the stars lean down to them white.
Ah! how the stars seem nigh:
How far away are the stars!

And I too under the stars,
Alone with the night again,
And the water's monotone;
I and the night alone,
And the world and the ways of men
Farther from me than the stars."

--Symons

Heteronymy as the Olympic drug scandal of Poetry.

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