Talking of Michelangelo

Julian Peters has comicked Eliot’s Prufrock — and Rimbaud, and Yeats, and Poe, and Guns `N’ Roses. Slate has the story. Like it I do — especially because it’s not anything like what I picture when I read the poem. As Faulkner said after reading an admirer’s manuscript: ”Well, honey, it’s not the way I’d do it — but you go right ahead.”

• 21 November 2013
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