Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 02:38:05 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Concerning Poets


>I did think the whole point of George Trail's posts was to be a kind
>of identification game.  It would ruin the game if he labelled the
>texts.  Even if one cannot spot the poet right away, guessing based
>on one's sense of the style or thematic focus would be not just a
>game but a useful exercise.  (Ever give identification tests?  I
>always hated taking them, but once I was fortunate enough to write
>such a convincing description of the reasons why I incorrectly
>identified a poem as perhaps pre-Raphaelite, perhaps Rossetti or
>Morris, that I was given credit for the answer even though it was
>off by 2 centuries.)
>Tom Dillingham

That assumption is very nice of y'all. It are innaresting that you picked
up a P.R.B. poet early by 200 years, esp. as given their whole program
which was that nothing reasllly interessting has gone down in the last 200
years, they came after only high scale romantics.

George Trail
gtrail-AT-uh.edu
U.of Houston