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Oct 17, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Just what this "Debbie Downer" needed this morning, thanks.

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Oh boy! I haven’t had enough coffee yet for this! Of course, the interpretation is much more about you, the reader, than the poet (said every shrink, ever). I plan to come back with a nice Jack Gilbert poem for you. But it’s a great column: Greg telling Mathew Arnold to go FH! Posthumously! Who could not smile?

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Arnold (the Matthew poet, not Austrian beefster) was never a personal favorite -- too dour 4 me. Great job of dismissing him but please leave the great Greek alone

Mad props & kudos otherwise

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I started smiling at "In other words, it’s the Kyrsten Sinema of verse" and was almost guffawing by the time I got to "Sophocles, my ass!"

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Oct 17, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Delicious👍

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Oct 18, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

I'm so glad you surprised me, but I should not have been surprised, really.

Yeats came along later, after a lot worse stuff happened, and did it better. Arnold was a stuffed shirt. He could write prettily, as they say, but we don't quote him much, do we?

Sophocles rules, though. Thanks for this Sunday Page, Greg.

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Ok, now read this with Sinema as your "date" on the beach.

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