Robin Hamilton wrote:
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> From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
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> > In narrative poetry, situation is metaphor;
> > the words must sparingly and efficiently bring the situation across.
> > The total failure of Walcott's "Omeros" was that he thought a long
> > narrative poem must also be a lyric poem; the reader clambers over fancy
> > metaphors and loses sight of the architectonics.
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> Poor Milton!! Goodbye _Paradise Lost_.
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> Robin Hamilton
I stand by my point. Try writing like Milton now.
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