The poems are delivered with the pompous self-importance of an obscure poet addressing a small band of intellectuals.
It also caters to customers who want to read obscure poets of other centuries.
Crane was mystified, as most obscure poets are, when readers found his poems difficult - after all, they were perfectly clear to him.
The inspiration, according to a program note, is a 16th-century mythological novel, "Pilgrimage to the West," written down by Wu Cheng-en, an obscure Chinese poet.
It was she, the obscure poet, who set the "new scale of values."
Some obscure poet of the town had thought of it.
Thus, Duckspeak samples many obscure and provincial Soviet poets in addition to more acclaimed ones.
I'd be willing to sit in meek adoration if he was laying down the law on Greeks and Romans, or obscure Elizabethan poets.
This whole scenario was culled from the work of an obscure human poet.
Much of the narrative here is from the uninspired work of an obscure contemporary English poet named Essex Hemphill.