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Old 04-25-2006, 03:08 PM
Jyqm Jyqm is offline
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Originally Posted by David
Why did Peter name it Albatross, with its obvious Romantic-era parallels to Coleridge, De Quincy, Shelley & Holderlin?
Does Hoelderlin have an albatross poem?

How about Baudelaire? Peter was probably into the whole "tortured artist" thing by the time he wrote his "Albatross."
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