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George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-08-13 2:45 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> Zod wrote:
>>
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> Danny Bee Barrington wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "1930 southwest corner Broadway and 11th Street the Historical Marker
>>>> says historic building second floor is where a famous English
>>>> novelist, poet William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) slept on his
>>>> visit to Columbus Georgia, made during his American tour. The
>>>> building now occupied by McCoy Grocery Co..."
>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>>>> No updates on this as of yet.
>>
>>> That is quite fascinating..!
>>
>>
>> Perhaps George Dance can feature one of his poems soon.

> I do have one Thackeray poem on the blog, "The Mahogany Tree," which I'm
> very happy to have since it's one of the few secular Christmas poems
> I've been happy to present. But I'd rather talk about my wiki.

> I know some people complain about that as 'self-serving,' but in fact
> the wiki is there as a service to everyone. Case in point: this thread.

> Zod's done an excellent job of bringing an overlooked poet to attention,
> and googling all over the web to find his bio and a selection of his
> poetry. That was a lot of work, and I don't want to denigrate it in any
> way.

> I do want to point out that one doesn't have to do all that work. All
> that someone interested in learning more about Thackeray has to do is go
> to one site, Penny's Poetry Pages:

> https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray

> There you'll find:

> (1) a short bio (from the /Short Biographical Dictionary of English
> Literature/)
> (2) an in-depth bio, much better than the Wikipedia one (from the 1911
> /Britannica/)
> (3) a critical assessment of his poetry (from /The English Poets/ series)
> (4) 2 pictures of him (a portrait photo and a caricature)
> (4) 4 readings of Thackeray poems embedded from YouTube)
> (5) links to more than 100 of his poems
> (6) links to both his collections of poetry, /Ballads/ and /Complete
> Poems/ (and to all his novels as well).

> You can find all of this elsewhere on the web, but not in one place;
> you'd have to google all over the web for it, like poor Zod (and poor
> NG) have been having to do.

> I've been trying for years to make PPP into a one-stop site for learning
> about poets and poetry, I think it's a superior alternative to searching
> through the web for it, and I think it's time to start promoting it more
> along with, or even above, the blog.


Hi G.D.

Completely agreed....!