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On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 3:32:46 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Saturday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
The Waste Land (II), by T.S. Eliot
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
[...]
(read by Tom O'Bedlam)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-waste-land-ii-ts-eliot.html
Great selection George.
Thanks, Will. I didn't know you enjoyed rereading Eliot.
I blogged the entire "Waste Land" (TWL) this month. The idea of doing
came to me a few months ago, when I discovered one of the links I'd used several times on my wiki was dead, so I found a copy on the wayback
machine and replaced the link. In the process I read the article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150916210611/https://sites.google.com/site/jcorelis/theonegreatpoem
The author, Jon Corelis, makes a powerful case that any general
anthology of English poetry that doesn't include TWL (like the 1999
edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse that he was criticizing) is
simply incomplete. Inspired by that I decided I needed to have it on my
blog. I decided to do that in April, because that is the first word in
the poem, but also because it's National Poetry Month (NaPoMo), and I
decided that would be a good NaPoMo project.
Of course it was too long to put in all at once, I posted a section a
day (except for part IV, which was so short I added it into the post of
part V). I used Tom O'Bedlam's online videos, because (unlike the
readings by Eliot I found online) Tom broke the poem into four separate
videos, which matched the way I was blogging it.
There have not been that many reads, and probably won't be considering
how many times TWL has appeared online already. But I am glad it's now
on, as I agree that any survey of modern English poetry would be
incomplete without it.
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