tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15401982.post4370813900531343262..comments2024-01-11T19:21:29.397-08:00Comments on Julie R. Enszer: Elizabeth McFarland and the Work of Writing ReviewsJulie R. Enszerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18225279980205699210noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15401982.post-26417293414997789602009-06-15T09:34:05.265-07:002009-06-15T09:34:05.265-07:00I quite agree with what you say. I reviewed McFarl...I quite agree with what you say. I reviewed McFarland's book and her best poems are comparable to those you can find in any book of German lieder. They have a folk-like quality that hints at an underlying mystery of being. A good 20th-century example would be the Hermann Hesse poems that make up three-fourths of Strauss's Four Last Songs. Rooney misses the point of them entirely I think and insists on seeing them through a prism of temporal and cultural provincialism. Auden's poem about the sailors and the whores wouldn;t likely have made it into any mainstream magazine in the '50s.Frank Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.com