From: searc-AT-intex.ie
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:15:36 +0000
Subject: Re: PLC: just for fun


Date:          Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:24:21 -0700
From:          Paul Smith <smithpe-AT-flash.net>
To:            phillitcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject:       Re: PLC: just for fun
Reply-to:      phillitcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU

TOM DILLINGHAM wrote:
> 
> It's Blake's The Tyger, but I cheated, since I have Harmon's book.
> Tom Dillingham

More interestingly, why is "The Tyger" the most anthologized poem?
>>>Because its safe - racist and discusses the 'other' plus most 
Romantics are obsessed with Blake - who couldn't help being obsessed 
with the exotic - it was an English past-time  that sent them off to 
colonise the world...
searc-AT-intex.ie