Frank - is the fact you dont read Ted Hughes to do with Les Murray saying he
wouldnt read English poetry and consequently hadnt read Keats? I could fully
understand this from the point of view of his objection to "Cultural Cringe"
ie assuming that English writing is better than ones own country's. The same
thing operates in Scotland. Its a twist of the 'dead white Europeans"
syndrome indeed I should not be surprised if an Australian made up that
phrase,
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