A link from C. Dale Young sent me to this article which is rather unflattering about a scheme to promote poetry in Seattle. What got me going, though, was this, from someone defending the scheme in the comments:
On comprehending poetry: you say “Poetry, by its very definition, is a difficult thing to write and to comprehend.” Certainly [...]
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Pulp Beowulf
3 December 2008 – 4:44 pm
Hwaet?
7 November 2007 – 10:14 am
A big-budget Hollywood version of Beowulf is obviously going to either be a travesty of the poem or commercial suicide.
When you hear that Angelina Jolie is embarrassed about her nude scenes in the movie, I think it’s pretty clear which one.
Beowulf as a chiefdom-based society
20 January 2005 – 5:06 pm
I’m just reading Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright, a book which argues that there is in fact a good theoretical basis (from game-theory) for seeing the development of human societies as directional. I believe the book later goes onto biological systems as well, but I haven’t got to that bit. Anyway, [...]