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From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "brit poets" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 03 September 2000 03:00
Subject: re: LRB re:re:verge & vergelessness
| 'About Hopkins: I find him a bad poet......I had another go at his poetry
| the other day, and confirmed my previous impression of it....trying to
treat
| words as if they were music. They aren't, are they?.....
I like the doubt of "are they?"
but
| bitch
| batch bum come cock cork fork fuck stuff; what is the point of it?
that's been missed out of my Hopkins, but I am pretty sure that What is the
point of it? is an addition of Amis' own self-disgust
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