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minervasoloSeminars are great. Much love of seminars. Got to discuss horace, which means I get to pull all of my shiny Latin knowledge out. Only very much out-classed by people using phrases like "Pastoral elegy". We never covered anything like that. So much reading to do, me thinks.
Reading, yes. Remembered at about seven o'clock last night that I had reading to do for today's seminar. Went to both medieval and yor:mag meetings (going to be one of their design crew), and got back at about half nine. Read the poems and scribbled notes of them. Suddenly knoticed I had essays to read. Horace, Sidney and Shelley. The shortest was 17 pages. Sidney was thirty something. Thirty+ pages of repetition, analogies, examples, repetition, misquoted Shakespeare and Latin poets, the difference between history and philosophy, erroneous statements, repetition and repetition. I have some vauge desire now to find a copy of the essay (An Apology for Poetry) online and edit it. Because that guy really really needed an edittor. I don't care if it was published after he died - it just means the edittor doesn't have to put up with any Anne Rice style attacks. He could have made all his points, even more clearly, in about three pages. There's almost two pages just of listing different poets throughout the ages. Even Shelley, who was a bit disorganised, had more coherancy.
So, we don't like Sidney. I still have to pick a poem for this essay due in next wednesay. I'm doing a presentation the week after, which is going to be mad. But the whole discussion thing works just great, so we do like Seminars.
Updated Greenhelm. I'm now off to do my reading for tomorrow's seminar, and get ready for a lecture. Oh, and find a new bag, because my current one can't take both the poetry and the theory book without ripping. Ooops.
Reading, yes. Remembered at about seven o'clock last night that I had reading to do for today's seminar. Went to both medieval and yor:mag meetings (going to be one of their design crew), and got back at about half nine. Read the poems and scribbled notes of them. Suddenly knoticed I had essays to read. Horace, Sidney and Shelley. The shortest was 17 pages. Sidney was thirty something. Thirty+ pages of repetition, analogies, examples, repetition, misquoted Shakespeare and Latin poets, the difference between history and philosophy, erroneous statements, repetition and repetition. I have some vauge desire now to find a copy of the essay (An Apology for Poetry) online and edit it. Because that guy really really needed an edittor. I don't care if it was published after he died - it just means the edittor doesn't have to put up with any Anne Rice style attacks. He could have made all his points, even more clearly, in about three pages. There's almost two pages just of listing different poets throughout the ages. Even Shelley, who was a bit disorganised, had more coherancy.
So, we don't like Sidney. I still have to pick a poem for this essay due in next wednesay. I'm doing a presentation the week after, which is going to be mad. But the whole discussion thing works just great, so we do like Seminars.
Updated Greenhelm. I'm now off to do my reading for tomorrow's seminar, and get ready for a lecture. Oh, and find a new bag, because my current one can't take both the poetry and the theory book without ripping. Ooops.
