tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post5157484395769289054..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: Neglected Poets: C. H. SissonStephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-51069860223362692222010-05-31T19:07:05.049-07:002010-05-31T19:07:05.049-07:00BurrettBlog: Thank you for visiting and for commen...BurrettBlog: Thank you for visiting and for commenting.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-56912735555681660542010-05-31T05:38:28.898-07:002010-05-31T05:38:28.898-07:00I've just been reading more of Sisson's wo...I've just been reading more of Sisson's work, and my conclusion is that he was a man of thought, and had some very relevant insights, which he then wrote doen in lines. Poetry, it's not! It's merely prose, in lines!BurrettBloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439499879410404262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-54455792415034679942010-05-31T04:33:20.095-07:002010-05-31T04:33:20.095-07:00I have to say, I am bemused! You can of course cal...I have to say, I am bemused! You can of course call that poetry, but is it is crap poetry! It is absolute drivel, and whatever he was, and I'm sure he was a very nice person and a good Anglican, he was NOT a poet, by any stretcfh of the imagination. Look again at just the first verse, it is pure puerility! And it gets worse in the next three.BurrettBloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439499879410404262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-68468108967718056002010-04-27T17:23:00.750-07:002010-04-27T17:23:00.750-07:00Thank you very much for the comment, Nige, and for...Thank you very much for the comment, Nige, and for "Epitaph." It is a good example of Sisson's humor -- which was often directed at himself.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-14006734505653969192010-04-27T08:58:32.052-07:002010-04-27T08:58:32.052-07:00Yes, some lovely stuff there... Sissons was a civ...Yes, some lovely stuff there... Sissons was a civil servant (as we call it in the UK) - but wrote this Epitaph:<br />Here lies a civil servant.<br />He was civil to everyone <br />And servant to the Devil.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.com