tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post2320165193875053456..comments2023-09-25T15:31:09.296+01:00Comments on Leaflocker: The Wednesday Quiz: Beat PoetsUnwiseOwlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466448988499591715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post-47905389078703949912014-08-27T11:28:45.304+01:002014-08-27T11:28:45.304+01:001. Big Willy Indeed. If I ever write a Shakespeare...<a rel="nofollow"> 1. Big Willy Indeed. If I ever write a Shakespeare rap I'm incorporating this name, now.<br />2. Augustus Gloop is a giveaway, no. It's Dahl.<br />3. It's Burns. I mean, the brogue, who else could get away with that nonsense?<br />4. It's Patterson. Michael, learn your Noted Australian Poets. <br />5. Going on about jungles, scared of women? Gotta be Kipling.<br />6. Cats everywhere. Gotta be Eliot.<br />7. It's a war poet, but it doesn't feel like Owens...gotta be Sassoon!<br />8. Keats indeed.<br /><br />Nice work to Michael with 6 when we include his Transpacific bonus. 3 for John.</a>UnwiseOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09466448988499591715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post-40412162815214754472014-08-18T21:51:35.375+01:002014-08-18T21:51:35.375+01:001: Big Willy Stratford
2: I know most of these, bu...1: Big Willy Stratford<br />2: I know most of these, but I don't know who wrote 'em. Hail, Mary: Roald Dahl?<br />3. Burrrrrrrns<br />4. A Noted Australian Poet<br />5. Ooh, who wrote Ozymandias? Crrrrrap. Issat Shelley?<br />6. T.S. Elliot<br />7. This, he said cleverly, would be a War Poet. Which means I'll guess Winfred Owen, without conviction.<br />8. I believe we are doing Keats here.<br /><br />BOOM! Where's my prize?Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post-55534988249380501522014-08-18T21:50:18.406+01:002014-08-18T21:50:18.406+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345798792585414227.post-44074044936174621982014-08-06T03:26:47.774+01:002014-08-06T03:26:47.774+01:00Ack, poetry is not my strong suit. I doubt I'l...Ack, poetry is not my strong suit. I doubt I'll manage many.<br /><br />You start off with the Bard. We have Roald Dahl to thank for Augustus Gloop, and your second-last paragraph is packed with T.S. Eliot (kicking off with Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats).<br /><br />I think that's it for me.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15242025288095910910noreply@blogger.com