Thomas Stearns Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
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Immature Poets
Posted in English, Journal Entries, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, tagged Bob Dylan, Ecclesiastes, Poetry, Steven Winn, T.S. Eliot on 29/12/08 | Leave a Comment »
Astrophil & Stella
Posted in English, History, Literature, tagged Astrophil & Stella, Medieval literature, Sidney, sonnet on 13/03/08 | 2 Comments »
On Thursday we began with a little background – or did we “resume” with a little background? I suppose you shall have to tell me. Professor Rouse¹ got us all caught up with the socio-economic context of the poem (?) I have yet to read. I was not able to access the internet and was [...]
The Miller’s Tale
Posted in English, Literature, assignments, tagged Chaucer, English, Literature on 09/02/08 | 2 Comments »
A summary of Geoffrey Chaucer’s, “The Miller’s Tale,” being for the benefit of my English 220 buddy…
True to Chaucer’s form, less concerned with courtly love-style romantic poetry opting instead to amuse his audience of courtly lovers with parodies of peasants and rowdy rubes or the sexcapades of serfs, “The Miller’s Tale” is a crunked [...]
