tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post3866357350686772968..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: The disadvantage of being behovelyGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-47507723732436607652009-12-05T23:43:23.697+00:002009-12-05T23:43:23.697+00:00As he sang:
A dreaded sunny day and I meet you at ...As he sang:<br />A dreaded sunny day and I meet you at the cemetery gates,<br />Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose,<br />'cos W-w-w-wilde is on mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-61816378495913136972009-12-05T17:20:57.141+00:002009-12-05T17:20:57.141+00:00Still more likeable in specifying Lou Reed as a so...Still more likeable in specifying Lou Reed as a song writer poet, not a straight poet. <br /><br />It would have been interesting to hear him develop this but I'd be surprised if he did ever develop it. As it is, it's a (likeable) off-the-shelf Oscar Wilde-ism (he wanted Wilde for his desert island book).<br /><br />I love Wilde but I'm never quite sure of him being the last and lasting word.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-75353315858849554512009-12-05T17:13:11.762+00:002009-12-05T17:13:11.762+00:00Likening Lou Reed to W.H Auden produces such a dif...Likening Lou Reed to W.H Auden produces such a different effect to likening W.H. Auden to Lou Reed. I think Morrissey chose the more likeable direction.Misehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01784548726623938608noreply@blogger.com