Chris Hamilton-Emery wrote:
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>
> I always remind
> myself that poetry was *not* historically for the people (a rather sweeping
> comment that I know) but for an elite. A true commodity, really: a measure
> of leisure for the learned classes.
I believe Philip Larkin said 'poetry is for the poets, and everyone else
canjust f*** off'. (My memory has probably distorted the quotation pretty
badly, but it sounds credible, doesn't it?)
Was it true in the past? Is it true today? I'm not sure.
Kari
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