I dont know why Christina Rossettie has to be Baudelaire before she
qualifies for more than a put down about the sexual content of her work. It
seems to me obvious that her gender and historical moment prescribed certain
boundaries on what it was possible for her to think or to write.....
Her writing is 'soft porn' and 'titilation' whereas Baudelaire is 'direct'
and 'the most important of early poets of the modern urban space' It reads
as a very gendered kind of positioning to me and I object to it. Back to
Alison's link with Pound's 'hard' poetics. Surely there is a more responsive
way to read CR than this?
Liz
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