tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post2457415240451765401..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Life is too strong for you - Spoon River AnthologyAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-21217919949613266812016-08-04T20:46:28.163-05:002016-08-04T20:46:28.163-05:00What a great parody! A two-for-one deal, which is...What a great parody! A two-for-one deal, which is even more clever. Here it is in <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KZVIAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA793&ots=C5pYAQjNI2&dq=If%20Gray%20had%20had%20to%20write%20his%20Elegy%20in%20the%20Cemetery%20of%20Spoon%20River%20instead%20of%20in%20that%20of%20Stoke%20Poges&pg=PA793#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">a contemporary publication</a>.<br /><br />Thanks, Roger; that was a treat.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-64626876586877331572016-08-04T19:44:33.111-05:002016-08-04T19:44:33.111-05:00"Spoon River" also inspired one of the g..."Spoon River" also inspired one of the great paridies: J.C. Squire's "If Gray Had Had to Write His Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River Instead of in That of Stoke Poges".Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29231685439591812002016-08-04T14:03:38.701-05:002016-08-04T14:03:38.701-05:00Yes, "Lucinda Matlock" is a beauty.
T...Yes, "Lucinda Matlock" is a beauty. <br /><br />The ongoing series of theatrical adaptations of <i>Spoon River</i> is a testament to the strength of the concept.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-76026849199848984872016-08-04T12:09:34.538-05:002016-08-04T12:09:34.538-05:00"I would have been as great as George Eliot....."I would have been as great as George Eliot..."<br /><br />(Although that's from another poem....)<br /><br />I'm thrilled that you featured Lucinda Matlock in your blog; it's probably the best poem in the collection and a classic piece of American work, out-Wildering Thornton Wilder (who was much later anyway).<br /><br />Spoon River is the kind of work that is approachable enough for high school students (where I first encountered it as a "play" consisting of student actors performing the poems as monologues--with original music to boot) but I also have never forgotten the glorious Lucinda Matlock, who made me cry at age 16 and still has the power to move me 45 years later, so the work is good enough to revisit as life's milestones make different Masters poems rise to new layers of meaning.cwilson284https://www.blogger.com/profile/01095943424268993611noreply@blogger.com