Backside Gas in that Jar Called Yale
One Harold Bloom says modern verse began
In 1890—or about then. That
Is what one venerating friend claims. Can
That be? Only an academic prat
Could be so arrogant and blinkered. I
Say modern verse began at least as far
Back (English-wise) as blank verse lines, that high
Creation of the Earl of Surrey, star
Of newness, turned by Marlowe into might.
Stupidity of academics needs
To blank out truths to give themselves the right
To high pontification. They write screeds
Ignoring facts like Whitman and that fart,
Lout Rimbaud. Profs don’t know where changes start.