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Henry's Goat's Blog Parts 19 and 20 - The Goat with a Quote
25 May 2007
I know that I said (and you all understood), ‘Iambic pentameters aren’t any good’. It’s not really true. If you stop and think on it, You can’t do without them for writing a sonnet. They’re really quite useful, some poets would say. Perhaps I was hasty. Perhaps they’re OK.
8 June
I read the best poets; I know them all well (It’s poetry reading that taught me to spell). There’s Wordsworth and Shelley and Shakespeare and Lear; There’s Kipling and Browning – I’ve got them all here; There’s Tennyson, Chesterton, Betjeman, Donne; And then there’s that versatile poet, Anon; Macaulay, O’Shaughnessy, Milton and Pope, MacCaig – and then Coleridge, Carroll and Cope. There’s poets galore if you know how to look: There’s Keats and there’s Yeats and there’s Wilde and there’s Brooke; I’ll read any poem; I need no excuse To open a volume by Nash or by Suess. I know, off by heart, the best lines that they wrote: I’m widely renowned as ‘The Goat with a Quote’.
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