I finished up an annotation on Browning’s “Love Among the Ruins” a little while ago, and didn’t feel exhausted by the poem at all.  I don’t generally make a habit of trolling the Interwebs, looking for criticism of poems I like, but I thought, why not?  Let’s see what kind of treatment Browning’s getting out there.

I found this article, which make me want to puke.  Out of my eye sockets.

People who hate poetry– and I don’t mean have a casual hatred caused by a bad experience with poetry, usually in a high school classroom, I mean passionately hate poetry– like the author of this article, should not be allowed near it.

Consider me disabused of the notion that the Interwebs might be a fine source of lively scholarly conversation.