Hi all Grassy writes:
"As for calling any discussion of the rightness or wrongness of aesthetic
matters potty. are you trying to take the bread out of the mouths of
academics, or what?"
Bread... Are they on solids? Nah, only joking. Personally I have no problem
with any amount of academic or philisophic theorising as long as the
practioner remembers that it is 'post facto'. The poem comes first. And, in
my case anyway, the same goes for response to critical feeback: if I feel
I'm not doing something because it will be judges 'incorrect' there's a
problem. And it's mine. I do however believe in being able to answer such
criticisms as are made.
To me it's the old duality - codification verses nihilism. To be creative
therefore I believe one needs to have an understanding of the codifying
tendency. The identification of 'freedom' with nihilism is for the "aught
f'r nought" brigade.
Yrs, somewhere to the right of Benito, John
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