He added: "Overlooking EF Benson, Lytton Strachey, Joe Orton, Denton Welch and JK Huysman's seminal Against Nature is really quite woeful, especially when they have included Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
Milton's "Lycidas" isn't really pitched to the "woeful shepherds" it exhorts, any more than Shelley in "To a Skylark" is talking to a bird, but in Snodgrass's universe the reader can feel like an interloper: the poem is speaking directly to somebody else, and only indirectly to the wider world.
Sam Bradford may never get a better opportunity to prove that he is capable of running Chip Kelly's offense than he will against the Saints' woeful secondary, but would we really trust him if this came down to a shoot-out against Drew Brees?
She writes: "Often, in my own case, I really can't tell if my marriage is woeful or sublime.
Their record in finals was woeful; four successive defeats, and that really does play on your mind no matter how good a player you are.
And I don't normally mind anachronisms except in woeful Downton, but would someone in 1788 really have known the baby polar bear joke (second episode)?
"The playoff run was the first thing on my mind," said Schmidt, who knew the woeful Pirates planned to trade him .I'm really happy to stay in the N.L., where I'm familiar with the hitters and everything that goes on here".
This time last summer, we were asking ourselves what Wayne Rooney would have to say about his visits to a Liverpool brothel; how Frank Lampard would explain his woeful performances in Germany; and why Ashley Cole had really left Arsenal.
"I've talked to a lot of local authorities recently and they really believe in social enterprise, but their experience of social enterprise delivery has been absolutely woeful," says Malcolm Williamson.
Weezer My Name Is Jonas After listening to Weezer's woeful new album I've spent the week going back in time to make sure it was really the same band I once loved.
