Sunday Picnic In a Snow Fort

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jjhunter

Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.

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[lnhammer]

I've been meaning to link this for a while: much of my reading of late, outside of Japanese Stuff, has been from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the late 1870s, near the end of his life. It is, to put it mildly, massive: I believe those 31 volumes were octavos (if not 12mo.), but the whole still comes to over 4000 ePub pages. Not everything is universally good, but most of it is technically competent Victorian poetry (of the sort Longfellow himself wrote), and if there was good actively poetry written about (or more commonly occasioned by) a place, he seems to have found it. Regardless, it makes a fascinating portrait of the attitudes of the time towards the world.

---L.