The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52927   Message #813920
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
29-Oct-02 - 05:16 PM
Thread Name: Songwriting Standards
Subject: RE: Songwriting Standards
It is interesting too, even on a quick glance. Thanks Genie. The best bad poetry tends to be by good poets having the day off. The same way it's much funnier seeing a brilliant skater fall over than a beginner.

And as well as the pleasure of seeing the star fall, sometimes there's the pleasure if second-guessing the critic who has dismissed something that doesn't at all deserve to be dismissed.

Strangely "The Stuffed Owl" by Wyndham Lewis, a classic collection of bad poems, mostly by people who should have known better, doesn't seem to be on the net. Project Guttenberg clearly has a long way to go.