12-07-2019, 04:41 PM
I forget, when I need to remember. I base so much on the ability to improvise in the moment. I wonder if Shakespeare was a jazzman. Do you think he filled papers with revisions or gushed a lot spontaneously?
I read Dr. Johnson and Hazlitt, and the few critics of today that are read. Sometimes reading critics influence me more than the poets themselves. Some people take criticism and use it constructively to try to do better. Some get angry and say the critic's wrong. I take criticism and use it constructively to try to prove the critic is wrong. I think we're living in an age of sophisticated readers. That might be why I find criticism so much more substantial. Also, the last girl I was in love with stuck an icepick in the poetic, imaginitive hemisphere of my brain. So I'm stuck with the egotistical, rational side.
I think Shakespeare had no moral qualms, literary-wise. He indulged in magpiety worshiply and made the most of everything around him. Like W. Blake said about Jesus, he made use of rules as much as he did any and everything else, and just did. But I have, as I think I said, been trying to forget Shakespeare just to remember his words, after a lifetime of him always being around. Like Uesheba said, Learn and forget! . . . I'm natural at that.
I read Dr. Johnson and Hazlitt, and the few critics of today that are read. Sometimes reading critics influence me more than the poets themselves. Some people take criticism and use it constructively to try to do better. Some get angry and say the critic's wrong. I take criticism and use it constructively to try to prove the critic is wrong. I think we're living in an age of sophisticated readers. That might be why I find criticism so much more substantial. Also, the last girl I was in love with stuck an icepick in the poetic, imaginitive hemisphere of my brain. So I'm stuck with the egotistical, rational side.
I think Shakespeare had no moral qualms, literary-wise. He indulged in magpiety worshiply and made the most of everything around him. Like W. Blake said about Jesus, he made use of rules as much as he did any and everything else, and just did. But I have, as I think I said, been trying to forget Shakespeare just to remember his words, after a lifetime of him always being around. Like Uesheba said, Learn and forget! . . . I'm natural at that.