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!

Sep 20, 2012 1:22am

“The Poet’s Dinner Table” - An advertisement for bindery in New Haven…

Who makes up the company of 16? Already identified: Shakespeare, Burns, Virgil and Dickens…

(Thanks, as ever, to Robert Gibbons who keeps an even finer table…)