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Am I the only one

who thinks Palgrave's poem about the Battle of Crecy is awful? No, ah well, there's no accounting for taste is there? Besides, tastes change don't they? And talking of the Hundred Years War, how is it that only ONE poem was ever written about the first great battle of that war? [One that I know of, that is]

Posted - January 18, 2018
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  • 46117
    That poem is so bad, that I never heard of it and I know everything.

    That's bad.

      January 18, 2018 9:41 AM MST
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  • 423
    Well, if I can, and providing I can get something satisfying or edifying from it, I long since determined to make poetry, literature in general, and music, part of my life. At this point my existence would be a miserable barren thing were all of that to be sucked away from me - through, say Alzheimers, or (further) brain injury, or deafness or blindness, or having my throat cut and my corpse kicked into a ditch by a psychopathic, yet well-meaning, Answerbagger. 
      January 18, 2018 10:34 AM MST
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  • 6988
    Do not doubt the ODIOUS!
      January 18, 2018 1:59 PM MST
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  • 7939
    I had to look it up. It's bad. Painfully bad. 
    Perhaps you could write a better one? 
      January 18, 2018 11:05 AM MST
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  • 423
    Yes it is. No wonder he felt he had to fill his Golden Treasury with other people's poetry. But I wouldn't try my hand at another Crecy poem - people might confuse my offering with Palgrave's and I would be mortified . . . but there may well be others.
      January 18, 2018 5:30 PM MST
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  • 5835
    Here is one that is wonderful, but it is such a tear jerker that I have never listened to it the second time.

    This post was edited by Not Sure at January 27, 2018 1:17 PM MST
      January 19, 2018 12:46 AM MST
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