tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post4731036457996450751..comments2024-02-02T12:19:39.504-07:00Comments on V for Victory!: CasabiancaAnita Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-27414425324976941562008-08-12T00:56:00.000-06:002008-08-12T00:56:00.000-06:00ttony, I'm Canadian, and that book was my favourit...ttony, I'm Canadian, and that book was my favourite poetry book as a child. I searched it out and bought several copies of it as an adult, and gave one to my dad. Our house had burnt down when I was a teenager and all was lost. I was glad to be able to find that it was still in print.paramedicgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17524363951843887071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-34193909739212755932008-08-11T13:35:00.000-06:002008-08-11T13:35:00.000-06:00This really isn't trying to make a point - it's sh...This really isn't trying to make a point - it's sheer curiosity: how many other of The Best Loved Poems of the American People were British?<BR/><BR/>I could imagine a similar British popular anthology (this means assembled between 1900 and 1955 when people still read decent poetry) containing Longfellow and Poe, and maybe Emerson if in the early part of the period. All three later, plus Whitman and Emily Dickenson. But nothing later.<BR/><BR/>I'm amazed (heartened, but amazed) that an American living today would know Capabianca not from study, but from oral tradition.<BR/><BR/>PS: By Wendy Cope (from memory)<BR/><BR/>Higgledy-piggledy, Emily Dickenson<BR/>Liked to use dashes instead of full stops.<BR/>Nowadays faced with such idiosyncracy<BR/>Critics and Editors call for the cops.Ttonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-59049365237143267322008-08-09T18:37:00.000-06:002008-08-09T18:37:00.000-06:00I haven't read that poem for a long time. It is i...I haven't read that poem for a long time. It is in my copy of The Best Loved Poems of the American People, a book that my dad used to read to us when we were kids.paramedicgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17524363951843887071noreply@blogger.com