I do not envy you the Pound-slogging. At least the Spenser made sense once I'd read the summaries and footnotes.
Millaaaaaaay! She might be in some anthologies and collections, but the academy has sadly neglected her. Thankfully, the internet has picked up the slack. This one is my favorite, and also probably her most famous. (I have a scene in an unfinished fic for my AU that riffs on this poem with Susan as the narrator. Oh, Susan.)
(Okay, "First Fig" may be more famous than that sonnet, come to think of it; it's in my icon.)
Faerie Queene: Hey, at least you tried to read it without a class making you...I never would've bothered. Well, Book One was on my orals list, so I might have bothered, but then again there were more than a thousand freaking texts on that list, so probably it would've been one of the ones I skipped.
I wish I could believe that, but, well, AC costs. On the other hand, it's far more common in Cali than in my area, so maybe there's hope!
Heh. I've lived in places without AC (England, my first year of college in Ohio), but I still have trouble believing people regularly do without it. We certainly don't down here. :D
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Date: 2010-08-12 10:55 pm (UTC)Millaaaaaaay! She might be in some anthologies and collections, but the academy has sadly neglected her. Thankfully, the internet has picked up the slack. This one is my favorite, and also probably her most famous. (I have a scene in an unfinished fic for my AU that riffs on this poem with Susan as the narrator. Oh, Susan.)
(Okay, "First Fig" may be more famous than that sonnet, come to think of it; it's in my icon.)
Boland is contemporary (she started publishing in the 1970s), so she's not in many collections or online much. However, four of my favorites:
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
Patchwork
The Pomegranate
Atlantis
Faerie Queene: Hey, at least you tried to read it without a class making you...I never would've bothered. Well, Book One was on my orals list, so I might have bothered, but then again there were more than a thousand freaking texts on that list, so probably it would've been one of the ones I skipped.
I wish I could believe that, but, well, AC costs. On the other hand, it's far more common in Cali than in my area, so maybe there's hope!
Heh. I've lived in places without AC (England, my first year of college in Ohio), but I still have trouble believing people regularly do without it. We certainly don't down here. :D