On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:55:01 +0100, chris.hamilton-emery <chris.hamilton-
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>This could start a trend:
>
>"Ted Hughes wrote animal poems despite having long sideburns and odd ideas
>about wombs."
>
Not quite a fair analogy. The original about Yeats was no mere non
sequitur - in fact by replacing the word "despite" with "because of" one
might get near a truthful statement:
W. B. Yeats wrote great poetry because of having a highly confused love
life and muddled ideas drawn from a hotchpotch of philosophies.
I wouldn't begin to speculate on why Hughes wrote poor poetry.
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