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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: Robert Creeley poem
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:39:53 +0000
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:57:09 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:53:52 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 6:41:33 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments
>>>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka
>>>> "HarryLime" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
>>>>> intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
>>>>> Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And I
>>>>> was right in doing so.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
>>>>> Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
>>>>>
>>>>> That's poetry of the highest quality.
>>>>
>>>> The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
>>>> of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up":
>>>>
>>>> "The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
>>>>
>>>> I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
>>>> something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".
>>>
>>> Ping Rachel:
>>>
>>> This is the obert Creeley poem I was telling you about, the one causing
>>> such a ruckus here on the poetry newsgroup.
>>
>>
>> It's George Dance's libelous accusation of plagiarism
>
> Read the George Dance poem again, he didn't make an accusation, just an
> observation.

It wasn't a poem, Donkey, it was a post.

And, yes, George Dance did make the accusation:

"I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism"."

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