[New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is Acid, and Y'all Can Go Screw

[Roger Day]

"The Dildo Returns" should be the title of something, or maybe your motto(^_^)?

I've ploughed through Mendelson's Auden(s) and I think you're right:
he deliberately structures the books so you're corralled into buying
all of them, which I had at one point. Correct me if I'm wrong but
isn't Mendelson's leeching career still on-going? Aren't there more
books coming out?

Roger

On 3/5/07, Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > Great data, thanks. It confirmed what we had been thinking with great
> > detail.
>
> Thanks, Skip.  I suppose I should stick it into Wikipedia, save me repeating
> myself .  <g>
>
> I'm not an Auden specialist, but I do have most of the books on my shelves.
> An expensive hobby if you're textual obsessive like me.  Anyone wants only
> one (cheap) text, the paperback _Selected Auden_ edited by Mendelson is the
> one to go for.  Has exactly 100 poems, about 50/50 pre- and post-1940,
> giving the original printed versions.  Thus the dildo returns to "In Praise
> of Limestone".  Doesn't have "A Platonic Blow", but that's here and there on
> the web.  And a pretty dreadful poem anyway.
>
> Back to trying to work out what the hell is happening in the new translation
> of (the collected) Zbigniew Herbert.  As far as I can make out, roughly half
> of the first 150 poems (pre-1969) are simply the Milosz/Dale Scott 1968
> Penguin translations integrated into the new text.  The information is
> there, but it take some digging to get to it.  Irritates the hell out of me.
>
> Anyone who's that interested, I've done a spreadsheet correlating the page
> numbers of the Penguin and Ecco texts that I could send backchannel.  Still
> haven't got round to actually  *looking at the new translations by Valles.
>
>             :-(
>
> Robin
>
>
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