tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145200404704322540.post891253355775423417..comments2023-10-11T06:50:10.494-04:00Comments on The Glass-Bottom Blog: Excuses for SentimentalityZedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10623092831367861959noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145200404704322540.post-89293534504253464692008-08-12T15:57:00.000-04:002008-08-12T15:57:00.000-04:00Oh I agree. I'm extravagantly fond of his best stu...Oh I agree. I'm extravagantly fond of his best stuff. It's just that his corpus is (I'd claim) much less than the sum of its parts because of the repetitiveness, so the Collected is a letdown. If I were to make a Selected I'd keep most of "The Whitsun Weddings," about a third of "The Less Deceived," two or three poems from "High Windows," and "Aubade." It would be a less frustrating book.Zedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10623092831367861959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145200404704322540.post-32624096667006024722008-08-11T01:20:00.000-04:002008-08-11T01:20:00.000-04:00OK; but this is too confident just taking the Coll...OK; but this is too confident just taking the Collected on its own—imagine wandering into your bookstore and idly picking up a copy of The Less Deceived (even if, or perhaps especially if, you'd seen things in North Ship). He may have a formula, but more often than a lot of the field, it works.zbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14795831846754083167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145200404704322540.post-82161148838636741752008-08-11T01:13:00.000-04:002008-08-11T01:13:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.zbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14795831846754083167noreply@blogger.com