Comments on: Leaf Fall http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/09/28/leaf-fall/ Joseph Duemer's blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, & weather Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jd http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/09/28/leaf-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-10520 jd Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:28:48 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=1856#comment-10520 I was coming up just as the New Critics were going down, so I wasn't too badly damaged! I still find myself telling students to avoid the pathetic fallacy, though, so I was not entirely unscathed. I was coming up just as the New Critics were going down, so I wasn’t too badly damaged! I still find myself telling students to avoid the pathetic fallacy, though, so I was not entirely unscathed.

]]> By: barry seiler http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/09/28/leaf-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-10519 barry seiler Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:56:23 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=1856#comment-10519 Hi-- Please pick on Brooks. Understanding Poetry damaged me for years. Hi–
Please pick on Brooks. Understanding Poetry damaged me for years.

]]> By: jd http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/09/28/leaf-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-10518 jd Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:55:57 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=1856#comment-10518 Well, Barry, it's just a little off hand joke. I don't have anything in particular against the New Critics except in so far as they were once set up as authority figures. Poor fallen idols now, of course, so I probably shouldn't pick on Brooks. Well, Barry, it’s just a little off hand joke. I don’t have anything in particular against the New Critics except in so far as they were once set up as authority figures. Poor fallen idols now, of course, so I probably shouldn’t pick on Brooks.

]]> By: barry seiler http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/09/28/leaf-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-10517 barry seiler Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:29:02 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=1856#comment-10517 Screw Cleanth Brooks? God help us, I think there's a poem in there! Regards, Barry Seiler Screw Cleanth Brooks? God help us, I think there’s a poem in there!
Regards,
Barry Seiler

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