in which I am pathetic

[angevin2]

So instead of actually working on my SAA abstract which is due tomorrow, or my Yuletide fic which is due in a week, I just spent the last hour tagging poetry entries on my lj by century. Because that is an absolutely necessary and useful thing to do. (Okay, so it does give me ideas about what I should post next in the Poetry Advent Calendar, but

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[angevin2]

*hugs you lots*

Tea and cats and chocolate are all Very Good Things. Are you feeling any better now?

[angevin2]

IT SURE IS

I FELT YOU WOULD APPRECIATE THAT

HERE, HAVE SOME YOUNG HOTTIE GIELGUD AS WELL

[gillo]

What about the eighteenth century? It's not all bitchy Pope and Swift you know! (Though they are really growing on me since I've been teaching them this year.) You have a Moral Duty to share some Blake, surely you realise that? And definitely Dunbar, Henryson and pals. Who are really
not eighteenth century.

[angevin2]

I always post at least one poem by one of the Scottish Makars every time I do poetry posts over a sustained period!

Also I really like Swift. I think the trouble with the eighteenth century is that so many people write long poems.

[gillo]

Some of Swift's rude poems are a lot of fun. Today I did the bitchy poem by Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu which triggered Pope's
Letter to Dr Arbuthnot. My class were shocked, I tell you!

Yes, there was still that sort of prevailing idea that to be a real poet you had to write at epic length if not epic style. I think that's why "Q" used so little eighteenth century stuff in his
Oxford Book of English Verse.

[writerwench]

Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band is my absolutely most favourite Christmas music.

Okay, cat-vacuuming time over... real work may commence!
All the time you were apparently faffing around tagging poetry, the deep levels of your mind were working on your abstract, you know.