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Reader Discretion Advised: On profanity and the sublime in poetry
- hprotagonist 9y agoYou can go back much further than they do here to find truly delightful and extraordinarily rude poems. Catullus 16[0](composed roughly 60 BC) is the obvious example, whose first line was not given in English translation until some time after 1950. (and look, i'm doing the same thing right now!) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
- ggggtez 9y agoDid this piece censor e.e. cummings? So in a piece about using profanity in poetry, some words are still too profane to print as is?
- hprotagonist 9y agoi noticed that too.