There is no frigate like a book - a National Poetry Month post

[kellyrfineman]

I spent today in the company of readers. Passionate readers. Indeed, passionate re-readers, as I spent the afternoon with Jane Austen fans, and many if not most of them have read all her novels more than once. Our speaker was Claudia Johnson, the Murray Professor of English at Princeton University and chair of their English department. Claudia (in

Comments

[kellyrfineman]

Certainly it's an example of how slant rhyme needn't be about twisty subjects in order to work well.

[anonymous]

There really is almost nothing better than being in a room full of others who are passionate about reading.

Thanks for that poem. Always good to read.

Jules, 7-Imp

[kellyrfineman]

I added her "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" as part of today's quoteskimming post.