[1] From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@pop.ucla.edu> (9)
Subject: Re: 12.0507 correction: free not blank verse
[2] From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@pop.ucla.edu> (18)
Subject: Re: 12.0507 correction: free not blank verse
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:16:17 +0000
From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@pop.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: 12.0507 correction: free not blank verse
Frost's remark, oft-quoted, was I believe in some lecture or
interview he gave once upon a time. He was right, of course. Blank
verse has a net indeed: the end of the line!
Jascha Kessler
Jascha Kessler
Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA
Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648
http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:16:35 +0000
From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@pop.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: 12.0507 correction: free not blank verse
PS, I should have finished my sentence about Frost and blank verse,
and I had meant to say: ...at the end of the line, as I learned the
hardest way last year in having decided to translated KING OEDIPUS
into blank verse for the U of Penn Press Greek drama series, which
volume containing my play and the two other Theban plays, by two
other American poets, was published as SOPHOCLES, 2 just about three
months ago.\
So obvious is the net, that my eye was blasted by the editor's having
failed to read closely enough to have really left out a 2-syllable
extra word that somehow the computer had not expunged, no matter how
many go-rounds we had. 11 syllables, and I was flattened to see the
nonsense made of that line, in cold, hard print.
Jascha Kessler
Jascha Kessler
Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA
Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648
http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/
http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html
http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html
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