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>But just +when+ did "aesthetic" become a prohibited category? It was still
>around in the sixties, when Beardsley was writing _Aesthetics_, but then ...
>The ideologues took over from the poets in the critical field.
Or the category was transformed in the visual & performance arts & poetry
is still trying to find its way in the new environment.
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>Yes, but (if my limited encounters are anything to go by) it not just a
>lamentable ignorance of the range of non-metrical forms, but also an
>incredibly constricted universe in the range of traditional metrical forms
>as well. how can they breathe?
Actually free verse as practiced in the US is quite sophisticated, elastic,
full of chattery dramatic-aphoristic charisma. They breathe quite
freely & sometimes movingly - but it's in a particular time- and
culture-bound idiom... (as we all are, I guess). - Henry
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