Not Knowing About Poetry

Episode Nine: J. H. Prynne's The Oval Window, All's Well that Ends Well, and Joey


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Joey and Joel get together to talk about Prynne for the second time - this time looking at a section of his book *The Oval Window* (1983), starting 'At the onset of the single life', that responds to a speech by Lavatch from act 4 scene 5 of *All's Well That Ends Well*. 

This is Lavatch's speech: 

"I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pomp to enter: some that humble themselves may; but the many will be too chill and tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire." 

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