the letter box project / copyrights, intellectual property, literary critici

[Annemehr]

Catlady wrote:
 
> The letter box project was started by a fan named Alison, I can't
> remember her last name, who had a Potterfan website that was fairly
> well spoken of at the time altho' I don't recall ever visiting it.

Annemehr:

Her screen name was Ali Wildgoose, as I recall (don't know if that 
was her actual last name or not).


Catlady wrote:
<lots of fascinating information re very early "fanfic" which I 
snipped>

Annemehr:

It happens in poetry, too -- poets often answer each other.  I have a 
sweet little book called _Conversation Pieces; poems that talk to 
other poems_ compiled by Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter, which is an 
anthology of such calls and responses.  The cascade of reactions to 
Marlowe's passionate shepherd is particularly noteworthy:

Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
John Donne: The Bait
Cecil Day Lewis: Song
William Carlos Williams: Raleigh Was Right
Ogden Nash: Love Under the Republicans (or Democrats)
W.D. Snodgrass: Invitation
Douglas Crase: Covenant
Greg Delanty: Williams Was Wrong

I just happened to stumble upon this book in Borders one day and 
couldn't leave without it. 

Annemehr