Lumpy pudding

Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work. Poetry succeeds because all or most of what is said or implied is relevant; what is irrelevant has been excluded, like lumps from pudding and 'bugs' from machinery. (Wimsatt & Beardsley)

Here we celebrate the excluded, lumpy parts of the pudding!

May 31, 2012 10:48pm

Whitman always revised, revised, revised Leaves of Grass

Via The Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, 1841-1947

(Source: library.duke.edu)