Re: PPB: Love-in-Idleness / Jane G. Austin
Will Dockery <[email protected]>
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[email protected] (George J. Dance) posted: > MummyChunk wrote: >> George J. Dance wrote: > >> Saturday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog > >> Love-in-Idleness, by Jane G. Austin > >> > >> A time for everything? O yes, > >> And August is the time, I guess, > >> To gather Love-in-idleness. > >> Am I not right? Fair one, confess! > >> [...] > >> > >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/08/love-in-idleness-jane-g-austin.html > > > > Thanks George! > > Thank you for reading and commenting. Austin made her reputation as a novelist, but > she was a pretty good poet, too. Sadly, all I've seen of her published poetry have been > the 8 poems I've blogged. (She published one more in September, but I haven't found > a copy yet.) There's a website devoted to her, https://janegaustin.com/ -- but it doesn't > even mention her poetry that I can see. I'm glad to see she's picked up some 21st- > century fans, and I hope there will be more to come. I suppose it should be noted that this is Jane G. Austin, a different pier from another famous poet also named Jane Austin. > This response appears in the discussion at: > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=709914497#709914497 -- Poetry and songs of Will Dockery: https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery