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Article #826573Re: 'Tis May Now in New England / Bliss Carman
From: ME
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:14
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:14
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On Friday, 15 July 2022 at 11:15:15 UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > Victor H. wrote: > > > Will Dockery wrote: > > >> On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:25:22 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 11:30:15 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > >>> > Zod wrote: > >>> > > >>> > > George J. Dance wrote: > >>> > > >>> > >> On 2022-05-30 10:11 p.m., Will Dockery wrote: > >>> > >> > >>> > >>> Your ignorance is showing again, Pendragon. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Leonard Cohen was a successful poet years before he became a Folk Rock singer. > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >> Indeed he was. > >>> > > >>> > >> "In 1961, McClelland & Stewart published Cohen's 2nd collection, The > >>> > >> Spice-Box of Earth (1961), which received rave reviews and sold out its > >>> > >> 1st printing. The book made him a public figure in Canada.[12] The book > >>> > >> also helped Cohen gain critical recognition as an important new voice in > >>> > >> Canadian poetry. Cohen biographer Ira Nadel stated that "reaction to the > >>> > >> finished book was enthusiastic and admiring.... The critic Robert Weaver > >>> > >> found it powerful and declared that Cohen was 'probably the best young > >>> > >> poet in English Canada right now.'"[13] > >>> > > >>> > >>> HTH and HAND. > >>> > > >>> > >> He's probably better known as a singer/songwriter, but anyone who's > >>> > >> learned anything about Cohen knows that he was a poet first. > >>> > > >>> > > Now try and get that across to the stupid V.D. Boy, the ignorant poetry bigot... ha ha. > >>> > Pendragon finally seems to have stopped playing stupid and has accepted that Leonard Cohen was a poet years before becoming a singer-songwriter. > >>> > >>> > >>> What I said was that he was a successful folksinger/songwriter who parlayed his singing fame into a career as a "poet." > > >> You have it backwards, then. > > >> Leonard Cohen was a poet long before he was a singer. > > >> HTH and HAND. > > Anyone who knows anything about Leonard Cohen knows that.... > > > Exactly, when is why Michael Pendragon is ignorant about it. will, did you mean to say βwhich is whyβ instead of βwhen is whyβ?
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