tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post1502754901891725669..comments2024-03-28T05:13:13.921-04:00Comments on Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: Creative theft ...Frank Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-3318668764138004642007-11-16T10:35:00.000-05:002007-11-16T10:35:00.000-05:00Well, I'm not sure, Grey. Given that Dekker spent ...Well, I'm not sure, Grey. Given that Dekker spent a good number of years in debtors' prison, he might have wanted a share of the royalties. And those Elizabethans could be a tough bunch.Frank Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-73551743795215951002007-11-15T18:14:00.000-05:002007-11-15T18:14:00.000-05:00Though steal is a word of very much negative conno...Though steal is a word of very much negative connotation. I imagine the Golden Slumbers poet would be delighted at this resurrection of his lines, & such seems to me more in the nature of homage or admiration than theft.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-492891040298327342007-11-15T17:50:00.000-05:002007-11-15T17:50:00.000-05:00Thank you, Grey. I have duly added an update.And y...Thank you, Grey. I have duly added an update.<BR/>And yes, Art, good composers do steal - and then improve, as Bach was want to improve on Johann Caspar Fischer. The protest poems, though, usually are wanting in music, as well as much else.Frank Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-61877012291215868242007-11-15T15:41:00.000-05:002007-11-15T15:41:00.000-05:00Though the golden slumbers line is used in the son...Though the golden slumbers line is used in the song Golden Slumbers by Paul McCartney, not in Here Comes the Sun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-45102646934522150712007-11-15T12:07:00.000-05:002007-11-15T12:07:00.000-05:00While I agree with Ormsby's last phrase—most polit...While I agree with Ormsby's last phrase—most political poetry really is bad, as poetry—I also detect within his comments the usual neo-formalist complaints about kinds of music other than their own. "Indeterminate as to form" is a telling line, since it is used here as part of a blanket condemnation.<BR/><BR/>One of my best composition professors in music steal was of the opinion that lesser composers quote, while gerat composers steal outright. What he meant, I think, is that he wasn't worried about influence: good ideas are good ideas.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.com