03-22-2014, 07:58 AM
As a matter of course I always acknowledge the poet if I use a line from their poetry, it’s a matter of courtesy but also if someone recognises the line it could be embarrassing.
The one exception was this stanza in a poem that was borderline.
Oh mother Church of England fair
In morning mass and evening prayer
Poets take up their pens and quills
And write of blue remembered hills
Ask is there honey still for tea
In Avalon and Linden Lea
‘Is there honey still for tea’ is the last line from Rupert Brooke’s poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester: but as I had referred to poets on the third line I didn’t think it was necessary to acknowledge the line again.
The one exception was this stanza in a poem that was borderline.
Oh mother Church of England fair
In morning mass and evening prayer
Poets take up their pens and quills
And write of blue remembered hills
Ask is there honey still for tea
In Avalon and Linden Lea
‘Is there honey still for tea’ is the last line from Rupert Brooke’s poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester: but as I had referred to poets on the third line I didn’t think it was necessary to acknowledge the line again.