On 29 Apr 2003 at 16:17, Chris Hamilton-Emery wrote:
> I've noticed that Bloodaxe now categorise their poets into subjects. As far
> as I am aware no one in the trade has attempted to a formal classification
> system for poetry, beyond BISAC codes and BIC subject codes, which each
> identify poetry as collections or anthologies, pre-1900 or so on. BISAC does
> make a distinction between British & Irish, and American. Anyway, how do
> people feel about classifying poetry?
Aside from the vapidly specious claim that this is scientific and
objective, which is patently untrue, and the agenda-driven terms such
as "burstnorm", Bob Grumman's categorization has some merit. You can
find it at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1492/lit-tax.html
Marcus Bales
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