You're right, Roger, & that's an interesting take on RG; thanks for the
link.
I did read The White Goddess back when I was just beginning all this,
as I was about to emerge from teen angst & all that. I recall being
taken by it but not understanding it perhaps because there wasn't much
there to understand?).
Big problem: that as I read more & more really fine women poets (not to
mention homosexual ones?), their ability, greatness, whatever you want
to call it, sure left Graves's exclusions in the dust.
So: good poems reveal that good poets wrote them, whatever gender,
sexual orientation, etc, they might be.
Hmmnnn: odd that.
Doug
On 12-Nov-05, at 1:55 PM, Roger Collett wrote:
> This is old stuff.
> Most of what needs to be said is on Andrew Duncan's website at:
> http://www.pinko.org/23.html
> Roger
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> "A woman who concerns herself with poetry should, I believe, either be
> a
> silent Muse and inspire the poets by her womanly presence, as Queen
> Elizabeth
> and the Countess of Derby did, or she should be the Muse in a complete
> sense: she should be in turn Arianrhod, Blodeuwedd and the Old Sow of
> Maenawr Penardd
> who eats her farrow, and should write in each of these capacities with
> antique
> authority. She should be the visible moon: impartial, loving, severe,
> wise."
>
> -- Robert Graves, The White Goddess
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