Thanks Peter & Nate for responses to my intemperate post; I probably had
a wee bit too much of the aptly-named Famous Grouse inside me at the
time. Peter's analysis of 'disunity in poetical readings' is well teased
out & right on the button; orthodoxies & large assumptions are so easily
built & traded over these essential privacies. Sure enough my use of
Larkin as shorthand was lazy but the context probably made it seem more
negative than I meant - I was thinking more of that quality of
flattening out of perception & language which as Peter implies was
accurate in his generation. But it casts a deep shadow & I find it also
in Fisher, or in the way I read Fisher, or Fisher reads to me. Despite
the humour, despite the push in some texts towards 'experimentation'. If
I were to mention a particular text it would be _A Furnace_: a bold
structure, a blueprint for a unique piece of verbal architecture - and
yet so flat in its execution.
AH
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