[New-Poetry] recently on wordstrumpet: the longfellow of philosophy &c.

[jforjames at aol.com]

I not sure where I read it, but Wittgenstein was said to have enjoyed reading the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore...
http://www.schoolofwisdom.com/tagore-bio.html
By 'Longfellow of Philosophy', do you think he means: Well-regarded by the general reader, but less well thought of by other philosophers?
Finnegan

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http://wordstrumpet.blogspot.com/


    * The Longfellow of Philosophy : the infamous Georg Kreisel on
Wittgenstein's anxieties

    * In the Vale of Poem-Making : humiliations and discoveries

    * 'Guillaume Apollinaire is Dead' : Jasper Johns and _The Sonnets_

    * The Library of Missing Books : a secret Alexandria

    * Poetic License and the Powers That Be : "Prizes are for boys" (Charles
Ives)




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