_OTHER_ ed Caddel / Quartermain, Wesleyan
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From: "Peter Howard" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 26 October 2000 23:10
Subject: Introduction to poetry
| If someone told you that they were interested in reading poetry, but
| knew very little about it, and wanted to learn more, where would you
| point them? Let's say they were intelligent, but not academic, were
| interested in reading for enjoyment rather than for study. They don't
| have preconceived notions of poetry being soppy stuff that rhymes, but
| they'll want to get their bearings before swimming out into the deep
| uncharted waters of Ashbery and Prynne.
|
| My first thought is to push the venerable Heaney/Hughes Rattle Bag under
| their nose. But does anyone have more imaginative suggestions?
|
| Best,
| --
| Peter
|
| http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
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