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Dec 7, 2009 · It doesn’t argue that the good is bad, or that bad is good. What it does is to offer for art (and life) a different—a supplementary—set of standards.”. Good Bad Poetry, likewise, seems to inhabit an aesthetic universe governed by unique laws (where gravity, for instance, often results in levity). Take, for example, Theophile Marzials ...
- "Good Bad Poetry": A Conversation | The Poetry Foundation
All Good Bad Poetry is formal poetry because the reader is...
- "Good Bad Poetry": A Conversation | The Poetry Foundation
May 20, 2010 · The answer ultimately lies with the reader of the poem, but there is a certain consensus as to what makes a poem “good” or “bad.”. According to the critic Coleridge, prose is “words in their best order,” while poetry is “the best words in their best order. Poetry demands precision. The novelist can get away with less than precise ...
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Dec 3, 2008 · All Good Bad Poetry is formal poetry because the reader is allowed to see exactly how the poem is failing to be good. The term also appears in the secondary criticism. I will only quote one critic: Hazard Adams. In The Offense of Poetry, Professor Adams dedicates a chapter to “The Double Offense of Great Bad Poetry.”. He writes,
Feb 22, 2018 · One could fill a fair-sized anthology with good bad poems, if it were not for the significant fact that good bad poetry is usually too well known to be worth reprinting. So what Orwell seems to have had in mind is that the ‘good bad poem’ panders to popular taste, but nonetheless it is a good example of its type: it is constructed with skill and enjoyable to read.
Mar 16, 2018 · The best anthology of bad verse remains The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (New York Review Books (Paperback)), first published in 1930 and edited by Wyndham Lewis (not that one) and Charles Lee. So, if you’re after some poetry that’s so bad it’s good, Parsons and Lewis/Lee make the best starter-pack.
Good poetry is usually cohesive, building around one theme or image. Good poetry can be playful and unexpected, or it can be neatly and precisely organized. Bad poetry uses cliches and accidental bad grammar, is too complicated with its imagery and ideas, or makes me feel like the writer needs therapy more than they need readers.
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Jul 14, 2016 · In conversation with the MacArthur-Genius poet and novelist. Perhaps, writes Ben Lerner, the collectively considered “worst poem” of all time is William McGonagall’s “Tay Bridge Disaster,” published in 1879. It begins: Alas! I am very sorry to say. Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
