[New-Poetry] Masefield

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Nice poem by Masefield over at wood's lot. 
_http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/wood_s_lot.html_ 
(http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/wood_s_lot.html) 
 
A few years ago I was in used bookstore in Middlebury VT
and I found a slender volume there that I thought might be gold.
It was bound single essay on poetry, as I remember it, it was his  retirement 
address.
An address to sum up one's life in poetry. I thought, ah-ha, a man who 
spent so many years immersed in poetry must have some  interesting
things to say about the art. 
 
I read it, as I generally do, with a pen and index card, ready to note  
certain
compelling passages or delightful quotations. Nothing, not a place to  put
a little hash mark in the margin. It was like Stein's Oakland.
 
But today I read the poem "The Passing Strange" and I forgive him.
Finnegan 



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