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James McAauley and the New Dunciad.(In memoriam)
ONE OF THE FIRST things that struck you about Jim McAuley was his sense of fun. The world remembers him as poet, critic and editor. He was indeed a serious poet--tragic, sentimentalisch. But he was a very funny man too. Only a great humorist could have written Ern Malley's poems. How can you help laughing as you read Ern's preposterous nonsense?
Princess, you lived in Princess St., Where the urchins pick their nose in the sun With the left hand.
Another of Jim's sallies that deserves to be better celebrated was his project of setting up Poets Anonymous, modelled on Alcoholics Anonymous. It would help the clapped-out poet who has nothing to say ...
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