[New-Poetry] poetry’s dying light

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http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/columns/2007/12/14/i-wondered-only-at-poetry-s-dying-light-64375-20248128/

I wondered only at poetry’s dying light
Dec 14 2007 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Daily Post


There is the advice that youngsters don’t have to suffer to be a poet, adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.


Back in 1927, PG Wodehouse warned young budding versifiers that it was no good going around thinking things pretty or they’d never make a modern poet, instead: “Be poignant man, be poignant.”


It was also Lewis Carroll who wrote in Through the Looking Glass: “I can repeat poetry as well as other folk if it comes to that –” “Oh, it needn’t come to that!” Alice hastily said.


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