Comments on: Frankenstein

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:14:02 +0000

I’m still surprised you didn’t tack this onto the Klavan RF3D interview posts. Either way, nicely done.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:00:56 +0000

What did he say about Mae West?

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:11:27 +0000

This then is the perfect place to mention Andrew Klavan’s article on Wordsworth — the conservative.

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_3_wordsworth.html

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:05:56 +0000

Us Potes (by Franklin P. Adams)

Swift was sweet on Stella;
Poe had his Lenore;
Burns’ fancy turned to Nancy
And a dozen more.

Pope was quite a trifler;
Goldsmith was a case;
Byron’d flirt with any skirt
From Liverpool to Thrace.

Sheridan philandered;
Shelley, Keats and Moore
All were there with some affair
Far from lit’rachoor.

Fickle is the heart of
Each immortal bard.
Mine alone is made of stone–
Gotta work too hard.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:49:33 +0000

I forgot about Rosetti, Blake and Longfellow. All great Romantic poets in their own rights as was Keats. Keats never had a chance to debauch himself as he died young of TB.

By: Tracy, txmom2many

Tracy, txmom2many — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:44:58 +0000

Christina Rossetti, William Blake, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (although in later life he apparently was dependent on opium for pain and suffering with stomach problems and burying 2 wives). Tennyson was pretty moral, although not a Christian by his own words.

“I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives” “I think I secretly wanted to be a writer” -Philadelphia Story

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:35:24 +0000

John Milton, TS Eliot, Robert Frost, etc. A lot of poets led relatively normal lives.

By: Tracy, txmom2many

Tracy, txmom2many — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:30:50 +0000

Yeah, I had Marx but didn’t know the ugliness of the others.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:25:15 +0000

Scott thanks for reminding me…ick..or the french form of ick eek!

I don’t know Kit. WB Yeates seemed like a pretty down to earth guy. Hell of a good writer my favorite poet. I also liked TS Elliott and some of WH Auden. Auden was gay and was with I think Christopher Isherwood for years before Isherwood died. The poem Funeral Blues is a really good poem as is as is Musee de Beaux Arts. I also really liked Dylan Thomas even if he was a drunk. There is just something so perverse about Shelley and Byron that anything the rest I listed ever did pales in comparison to those two freakish knuckleheads. THey would have been the Michael Moores, Keith Olberdickheads of their times.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:08:40 +0000

Any poets who led morally decent lives?