I was hoping to find out what an "Anglo-Saxon ethos" was!
I'm sure Piere is right about w.a.s.p., a term I'd forgotten about. I
still find it very strange, it's like referring to the entire pre-colonial
population of sub-saharan Africa as "the bushmen". And I don't think
populations should be blamed for the acts of their tyrants anyway.
But as it concerns poetry I was interested in the kind of thing you have to
say in the U.S.A. these days, and no doubt elsewhere, if you want to sell
a book of poems. It's probably not enough to say something like "These are
beautiful, intelligent, deeply passionate utterances." That might get you
nowhere. "Jeez, we know all that stuff, where's the social improvement
angle?". However since the blurb in question was in fact for a book of
mainly political poems, I'm happy to drop this subject until a better
example arises.
/PR
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