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Will-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for May:
A Road Song in May, by Francis Sherman
[...]
O wind that bloweth from the west,
Is not this morning road the best?
" Let us go hand in hand, as free
And glad as little children be
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/05/road-song-in-may-francis-sherman.html
Again, you're doing a great job bringing these obscure poets back into the spotlight, GJD.
Francis Sherman is another good addition to the canon.
"Canon" is a good way of putting our Featured Poem section. It's nothing
like these lists of all-time great poems I see here from time to time, of course; it's far more limited, both in how many poems I can add and what
poems qualify. But it is a pretty good list of pretty good poems, and with Sherman's being poem #60, I'd say PPB has built up a nice introductory
reading list in its five years.
I've tried to include poems across the various spectrums, with both
classics everyone knows and poems that would be new to most. Sherman
was a good choice in the latter respect. He's not known at all outside
Canada, and not much at all outside New Brunswick. In NB he's considered
one of the top three - in fact, there's a nice statue in the capital of him with Bliss Carman and Charles G.D. Roberts, which shows his stature there
(at least historically). But I bet most of the blog readers have never seen
his work before. So he's one poet I'm glad to include.
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