tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post6943736071318428135..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Dear Wikipedia, I object--Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-59219954947396352382020-08-15T11:23:07.037-04:002020-08-15T11:23:07.037-04:00Keats... I expect it was his kinship with the sens...Keats... I expect it was his kinship with the sensual, with natural imagery, with melancholy attitudes, with love of classical Greece, with the exotic and romantic, with medievalism, with the primacy of imagination, and with sentiments and the emotional that linked him with the second generation (Shelley, Byron) of Romantics particularly and with Wordsworth and Coleridge. <br /><br />The latter Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-31665645544190197932020-08-14T11:06:45.014-04:002020-08-14T11:06:45.014-04:00Perhaps it is the fact that time appears to speed ...Perhaps it is the fact that time appears to speed up... but neither Keats nor Bach had to put up with people sticking labels on them. They could wait until safely dead and unable to fend off persecution by academic categorizers. <br /><br />Maybe the illusion of time speeding up is just Wikipedia, which ghoulishly jumps onto any notable death within the hour.<br /><br />I'm off to lunch in Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-31533905100493462602020-08-14T10:56:21.745-04:002020-08-14T10:56:21.745-04:00I looked up formalism elsewhere other than Wiki. S...I looked up formalism elsewhere other than Wiki. Since you spend a good deal of energy disestablishing yourself from formalism and adding that you prefer darkness to knowing, I won't irritate you with what I found. But based on one of the two meanings I'd say your inclusion was intended as a joke. Worse still, an academic joke, thus unbearably tedious.<br /><br />But there is another sideRoderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-91648297845454933472020-08-14T08:42:26.904-04:002020-08-14T08:42:26.904-04:00Yes, it seems silly to talk about it as a school t...Yes, it seems silly to talk about it as a school these days. People just write poems, and sometimes they write in form, as people have done for thousands of years.<br /><br />I did once write them, bugged about some other thing, I guess--but then they just stick it on the Talk page. Bleh. So now I just stick to being vaguely bothered and then forget about it.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-67817145140251265052020-08-14T02:13:57.216-04:002020-08-14T02:13:57.216-04:00I have a friend who was involved for a while in ma...I have a friend who was involved for a while in maintaining Wikipedia entries for subjects that interested him, including the town where his family came from in Ireland. Through him, I learned that there are quite a few people for whom creating and maintaining Wikipedia entries is an avid hobby. If you go to the Wikipedia page about you, notice that there's a "view history" tab on Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-82097636777618795562020-08-13T18:40:43.576-04:002020-08-13T18:40:43.576-04:00Haha! Yes. Just a bit of silliness...Haha! Yes. Just a bit of silliness...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-74977720912347730642020-08-13T18:32:17.102-04:002020-08-13T18:32:17.102-04:00Heh. I would say, count your blessings: as categor...Heh. I would say, count your blessings: as categories go it seems like a pretty harmless one :-)Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-81448187670343629012020-08-13T12:36:48.843-04:002020-08-13T12:36:48.843-04:00You are hilarious! There has been one for a while,...You are hilarious! There has been one for a while, despite my persistent obscurity... I know one person in the UK who wrote part of it...because he told me afterward. I don't know about the New Formalist business. Who did that?Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-57962145717073139312020-08-13T12:25:31.835-04:002020-08-13T12:25:31.835-04:00I think the solution here is to create a Wikipedia...I think the solution here is to create a Wikipedia account, or have a family member or a friend create one, and go in and edit your own entry. I hope you'll still speak to the rest of us now that you've become famous enough to have your own Wikipedia page!Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-14886324950561325412020-08-12T10:58:37.497-04:002020-08-12T10:58:37.497-04:00I rebel against categorization! However, you are ...I rebel against categorization! However, you are right, Tim. Could be more annoying. Could have more labels, I suppose.<br /><br />Yes, genre labels are a bit pseudo-scientific. And odd at the moment when there is so much mash-up work.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-26848403816655440722020-08-12T09:00:25.072-04:002020-08-12T09:00:25.072-04:00Oh, my ... well, we know that English departments ...Oh, my ... well, we know that English departments began insisting upon labels half a century ago ... it was if we needed to make literature more scientific with its classifications and charts .... one could be called worse than NF ... and there is this: https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-new-formalism<br />Keep smiling ....<br />Best wishes from the Gulf coast curmudgeon ..l one who survived the RTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113953356514605424noreply@blogger.com