Mudcat Café message #2259047

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Thread #57920 Message #2259047
Posted By: Joe_F
10-Feb-08 - 09:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: One and Twenty (A E Housman) sound poem
Subject: RE: One and twenty - A E Housman sound poem

Here is the original sentence (in _The Name and Nature of Poetry_):

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.