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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Re: bad poetry
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Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 17:12:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 17:12:07 1986
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> I'm curious, what makes McGonagall or Moore a "distinguished bad poet"?
> Surely there are thousands of people in the world who write equally terrible
> poetry; is it that Moore and McGonagall succeeded in getting published
> widely?

Your assumption is wrong.  Mrs. Moore wrote poetry that was unimaginably
bad.  Even people who _tried_ to write poetry as bad as hers failed.  She
had an infallible sense of the banal and the bathetic.


	"Come all good people far and near,
	 Oh, come and see what you can hear."
			--Julia A. Moore
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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