I'm very sorry if anything I have said creates the impression that I'd be
insulted by a polite and reasonable disagreement of the sort that J. B.
Lethbridge offers.
At the moment, I'm not prepared to devote quite the care to this question
that has clearly gone into his last post. If I remain unpersuaded, it's
because we work from such different assumptions. To cite only one quick
instance in passing, I wouldn't accept "simplest available" as a criterion
for threshing the wheat from the chaff in readings of poetry.
I do find the current discussions on the list very rich, and regret that
I'm unable to quite keep up with them just now.
David
David Lee Miller
Department of English
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
859-257-6965 (office)
859-252-3680 (home)
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