<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post2684408230976241500..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1820094482673511094</id><published>2010-03-28T08:38:15.639-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-28T08:38:15.639-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To write the hard couplet is easy;&#xa;Just imitate &amp;q...</title><summary type='text'>To write the hard couplet is easy;&lt;br /&gt;Just imitate &amp;quot;I Shall Be Free.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;If extempore rhyme makes you queasy&lt;br /&gt;Try Dryden&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Religio Laici.&amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/1820094482673511094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/1820094482673511094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269779895639#c1820094482673511094' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/S6fjRg-MVRI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-66g7EaCfIY/S220/David_and_Robbie_portrait%5B2%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5598484317673812326</id><published>2010-03-27T20:17:37.599-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-27T20:17:37.599-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I could very possibly go down in history as Bob Dy...</title><summary type='text'>I could very possibly go down in history as Bob Dylan&amp;#39;s greatest fan, but, hey (poetically speaking)...couplets are easy.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/5598484317673812326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/5598484317673812326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269735457599#c5598484317673812326' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2851511356332413134</id><published>2010-03-24T08:07:59.609-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T08:07:59.609-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven, when you said multiplicity, did you mean m...</title><summary type='text'>Steven, when you said multiplicity, did you mean multiplicity of meaning or multiplicity of reference? I&amp;#39;m guessing you meant the latter. I associate compression with multiplicity of meaning. By using language rich with connotations and associations, the poet says a lot in a few words. Multiplicity of reference, on the other hand, requires no concision. One could write a prolix piece replete </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/2851511356332413134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/2851511356332413134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269432479609#c2851511356332413134' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/S6fjRg-MVRI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-66g7EaCfIY/S220/David_and_Robbie_portrait%5B2%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1903579319410890726</id><published>2010-03-23T23:54:19.219-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T23:54:19.219-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ed,&#xa;&#xa;You are completely misreading what I wrote.&#xa;&#xa;...</title><summary type='text'>Ed,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are completely misreading what I wrote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gary,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like Morissette a good deal as a songwriter, but no she&amp;#39;s not on that same level. But then neither are Leonard Cohen nor Neil Young,two other superb Canadian songwriters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joni Mitchell was swallowed by her own self-regard years ago.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/1903579319410890726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/1903579319410890726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269402859219#c1903579319410890726' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6051490849470458998</id><published>2010-03-23T22:24:22.289-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T22:24:22.289-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have always been intrigued by how often Bob Dyla...</title><summary type='text'>I have always been intrigued by how often Bob Dylan, the great poet/songwriter, is mentioned on-line, but never a word about his contemporaries Alanis Morissette or Joni Mitchell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talk about great poets!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talk about Myopia.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/6051490849470458998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/6051490849470458998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269397462289#c6051490849470458998' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2190322079333434239</id><published>2010-03-23T15:23:52.412-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T15:23:52.412-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/2190322079333434239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/2190322079333434239'/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8178955957552491548</id><published>2010-03-23T13:48:11.381-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T13:48:11.381-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Edmund usually steals the play--at least he&amp;#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>Edmund usually steals the play--at least he&amp;#39;s an honest anarchist-opportunist, rather than the sentimental booj-wah (including Lear). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though, were you starving in the streets in London circa 1600, you might of joined the roundheads, who preferred their thespians and their royalist patrons hanged from a gallows...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/8178955957552491548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/8178955957552491548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269366491381#c8178955957552491548' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5620623697688868023</id><published>2010-03-23T11:40:39.055-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T11:40:39.055-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Compression and multiplicity are different qualiti...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;Compression and multiplicity are different qualities or values in writing.  Neither is dependent on the other.  So I left a little uncertain when you seem to equate the two (at the end of the next to last paragraph, and the start of your final one).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Shakespeare: Hugh Richmond, now Professor Emeritus, told his classes at Berkeley (the two I took from him, anyway, circa 1977 and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/5620623697688868023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/5620623697688868023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269358839055#c5620623697688868023' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5185639223716167729</id><published>2010-03-23T11:17:19.280-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T11:17:19.280-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The play depends on the king&amp;#39;s ability to spea...</title><summary type='text'>The play depends on the king&amp;#39;s ability to speak English.  About half the play is the Glocester subplot when the king never appears.  And in the Lear part the king does not preside all that much.  The reader can cherry pick this thing.  The theater-goer has to sit through the whole four hour degringolade.  His ass is frozen to the chair.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/5185639223716167729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2684408230976241500/comments/default/5185639223716167729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html?showComment=1269357439280#c5185639223716167729' title=''/><author><name>מבול</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10217126520280829330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/kevin-bergen-as-edmund-left-christopher.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2684408230976241500' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2684408230976241500' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1797418022"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2010"/></entry></feed>