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From: "Francis M (HaSS)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 17 April 2000 12:14
Subject: RE: Some remarks on publishing
| When was it otherwise? Success always depends on power. It's hard to see
how
| you could ever hope to separate power from merit in an activity like
poetry
| in which no objective measurement of success is possible.
Are you saying that power defines what is asserted to be meritorious?
Many who have some power / success in poetry seem to me to be lacking in
sufficient poetical merit to justify the success / power
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