Some of us out in the colonies have heard of Webb.
"Patience is the wideness of the night
the simple pain of stars ..." etc
You're right about local variants - that seems inescapable but the Norton
Anthology's second half (as all the others containing 19th century poetry
onwards) are just big fat examples of local variants. Anything that isn't
will be a mighty big book.
Cheers,
Jill
29/10/00 7:49 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> What will play out here, however, are local variants, especially for those
> of us living on the margins of the two empires (New York & London, that is).
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> My 20, which I haven't constructed yet, would include Phyllis Webb (about
> whom many on this list know nothing more than the occasional quotation
> found at the bottom of my e-mails),
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