OK, I didn't identify any -essence-, just said (with several recognitions
of the limitations of my own reading, in this area) that L crits had been
-mostly-, shall we say (to change tags), unengaging. You say, Poetics,
not Criticism. That's interesting - I suppose I had previously read such
stuff predisposed to have it as criticism; how would the strictures - if
there are any - mutate into that category? Is Poetics subject to the same
climate of counter-challenge, resistance and relative expertise that has
accumulated around criticism? Or should it be? Maybe the two will always
exist side by side - in which case, it seems likely that Poetics will
tacitly proclaim its anteriority to crit (the moral advantage), whilst
crit understands itself to be coming to comprehend Poetics (the advantage
of perpetual motion). If L writings (not 'poems') -are- Poetics AND NOT
criticism, can they be more than an at best novative self reflection/isn't
consideration of other people critical?
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