Only, Joe, if you assume that Plath would make it to industrial standing on
quality alone. Shakespeare is a celebrity, but so are the Spice Girls.
I can't think of a single poem of Plaths I'd be willing to teach--not only
would it be bad for my students but I'd have to read it again.
I realize that I've just made a tendentious statement.
At 05:54 PM 7/6/2000 -0400, you wrote:
><<In some ways I feel the industry surrounding Plath is generated by her
>style of writing to some degree . . . with poems of such a personal
>nature . . .>>
>
>There are far greater poetic "industries" surrounding the work of
>Wallace Stevens & Elizabeth Bishop, neither a particularly "personal"
>poet, so there would seem to be something empirically wrong with this
>argument.
>
>________________________
>Joseph Duemer
>School of Liberal Arts-5750
>Clarkson University
>Potsdam NY 13699
>[log in to unmask]
>________________________
>
>"Always come down from the barren heights
>of cleverness into the green valleys of folly."
> ::Wittgenstein
>
>
>
>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|