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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:41:36 -0600
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- From: Marshall Gilliland <marshall@JESTER.USASK.CA>
- Subject: poems in anthologies
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- There was this recently:
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- <In article <C1DCJo.C2E@ccu.umanitoba.ca> feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- (Michael Feld) writes:
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- >"400 poetry anthologies were fed into a computer and voila -- the 500
- >most anthologized English poems rose to the top. A revealing snapshot
- >of one aspect of Wesern civ, even including a list of the poems in
- >order of popularity. (... is Number 1.)"
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- >Can you guess? I couldn't; but the winner is neither trivial nor
- >inappropriate.
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- Will some kind person please post the top five or ten or however many
- titles your fingers will type? I'm guessing the #1 poem is either a
- Shakespeare sonnet ("Let me not..." or "Western Wind." Help....
- Thanks.
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- Marshall Gilliland English, U of Saskatchewan
- marshall@jester.usask.ca
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