Friday, January 3, 2003

Ballad Of The Goodly Fere Comments

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Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O' ships and the open sea.
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Ezra Pound
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Yvonne Dorsey 21 December 2009

12/21/09 Todays clue in the daily crossword puzzle, the answer fere, not sure from the poem if it means companion, or priest?

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Stanton Hager 20 August 2006

Fere (def.) a companion, a mate Pound- the great Modernist free-verse poet- was master of more traditional poetic forms than ANY other 20th Century poet. In fact, FEW pre-20th Century English poets mastered as many forms as Pound. 'Ballad of the Goodly Fere' ranks with Robert Burns' ballads.

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