Got it
Thanks
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis M (HaSS)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 17 April 2000 16:04
Subject: RE: Some remarks on publishing
| I mean that I can't find any satisfactory way of separating one from the
| other once and for all. We all believe we are good judges of poetic merit,
| but we could argue about it forever without agreeing which poets have it.
| Meanwhile, canons are being made by the people who have the power to make
| their views count, editors, journalists, anthologists, writers who've
| already made the grade. (And many of these, one could argue, owe their
power
| to 'merit'.) I think some version of this state of affairs must always
have
| existed, and it's hard to see how there could be pure literary values that
| are innocent of this kind of politics.
|
| Best wishes
|
| Matthew Francis
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| 01443 482856
|
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Lawrence Upton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
| Sent: 17 April 2000 14:16
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: Re: Some remarks on publishing
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| ----- Original Message -----
| 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
|
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| | 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
|
| L
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