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JMDL Digest         Tuesday, August 14 2007         Volume 2007 : Number 321



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TOPICS and authors in this Digest:
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  Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem                  ["AJ" <ajfashion@att.net>]
  Re: yeats                                        ["AJ" <ajfashion@att.net>]
  Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem                  ["AJ" <ajfashion@att.net>]
  Re: yeats                          [Victor Johnson <waytoblue@comcast.net>]
  Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem    [jeannie <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>]
  Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem's First Origination  [jeannie <dreamin1957]

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:44:41 -0500
From: "AJ" <ajfashion@att.net>
Subject: Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jeannie" <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>



>I forgot the smooth move over from Romantic to Modernist. It's all in the 
>game of love and truth and beauty!
>
>  Jean

Actually there were a number of things in between!  The Victorians,
for one (Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, those guys--not a particularly
distinguished period in English poetry IMO).  Early Yeats
was actually quite Romantic and then, depending on whose
version one believes, he met the younger Ezra Pound and wrote
the work he will be remembered for so long as anyone reads
on this planet.

OK, I need to do about a million things before tomorrow and
I'm somehow compelled to be online.  That ever happen to
anyone else?

- --AJ 

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:40:59 -0500
From: "AJ" <ajfashion@att.net>
Subject: Re: yeats

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "starvingartist" <starvingartist@att.net>
To: <joni@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:17 PM
Subject: yeats


> <Some of us are Yeats fans.  I don't care what she does with "If,">
> I'm sure I'm misunderstanding, but "If" is Kipling.  I like what she did 
> with
> Yeats.
>

It was completely clear that the OP meant that he didn't care
what she did with "If," because it's an inconsequential poem,
but that he cares very much what she does to Yeats, particularly
to one of his most important poems.

- --AJ

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:47:38 -0500
From: "AJ" <ajfashion@att.net>
Subject: Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jeannie" <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>



> You make a mighty strong argument there and I admire your passion for 
> Yeats. Yet, I know that Joni did give Yeat's poem new interest and respect 
> beyond any CD sales reports and the English machinery.
>

This isn't a perfect analogy, but just imagine how offended we
would all be if, say, Jessica Simpson or Brittney Spears
covered a great Mitchell song and decided to change the lyric
and the parts of the melody.

Sometimes exposure, if it diminishes a great work of art,
just isn't worth it.

- --AJ (All I am asking, Is leave Yeats alone, lol)

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:01:24 -0400
From: Victor Johnson <waytoblue@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: yeats

On Aug 13, 2007, at 10:40 PM, AJ wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "starvingartist"  
> <starvingartist@att.net>
> To: <joni@smoe.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:17 PM
> Subject: yeats
>
>
>> <Some of us are Yeats fans.  I don't care what she does with "If,">
>> I'm sure I'm misunderstanding, but "If" is Kipling.  I like what  
>> she did with
>> Yeats.
>>
>
> It was completely clear that the OP meant that he didn't care
> what she did with "If," because it's an inconsequential poem,
> but that he cares very much what she does to Yeats, particularly
> to one of his most important poems.


hardly anything is completely clear when it comes to email.

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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: jeannie <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

AJ <ajfashion@att.net> wrote:  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jeannie" 



> You make a mighty strong argument there and I admire your passion for 
> Yeats. Yet, I know that Joni did give Yeat's poem new interest and respect 
> beyond any CD sales reports and the English machinery.
>

This isn't a perfect analogy, but just imagine how offended we
would all be if, say, Jessica Simpson or Brittney Spears
covered a great Mitchell song and decided to change the lyric
and the parts of the melody.

Sometimes exposure, if it diminishes a great work of art,
just isn't worth it.

- --AJ (All I am asking, Is leave Yeats alone, lol)
  
An imperfect, horrific analogy, AJ.  Even Alfred E. Neuman sounds better than Britainny and Daisy Duke of Earl.
   
  I'll just play Hank Williams bearing his soul all night long and leave William Shakespeare for another hard-wired time 
   
  Jeannie.
   
  NP: Three Chords And The Truth--Ry Cooder--My Name Is Buddy


  

       
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:37:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: jeannie <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Slouching Towards Bethlehem's First Origination

AJ:
   
  Where do you think Yeats got his inspiration from for the poem?
   
  Jeannie

AJ <ajfashion@att.net> wrote:
  
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jeannie" 



> You make a mighty strong argument there and I admire your passion for 
> Yeats. Yet, I know that Joni did give Yeat's poem new interest and respect 
> beyond any CD sales reports and the English machinery.
>

This isn't a perfect analogy, but just imagine how offended we
would all be if, say, Jessica Simpson or Brittney Spears
covered a great Mitchell song and decided to change the lyric
and the parts of the melody.

Sometimes exposure, if it diminishes a great work of art,
just isn't worth it.

- --AJ (All I am asking, Is leave Yeats alone, lol)






  

       
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