POETREE

Let's see. This week, I continued marching through Home Book of Verse (1915), having gotten most of the way through part VI -- today included "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Locksley Hall," and "The Scholar Gipsy," along with the usual lumps of undistinuguished verse that one gets in an anthology this size (3600-odd pages in dead-tree format). Also read this week: Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1596), an Elizabethan erotic narrative by George Chapman (he of Keats's Homer, yes), plus started Alfred Noyes's Watchers of the Sky (1922, part one of The Torch Bearers), an book-length poem about astronomy.

---L.