On 17/2/05 2:14 PM, "Thomas Fallon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I wonder if I might ask this "old" question:
>
> Whom do poets write for? What is the "audience" we seek
> to communicate with?
God, naturally. (Or maybe that's playwrights - didn't Arthur Miller's last
wife say something like that?)
I haven't read Bakhtin for years, and so this may be misremembered; but I
did like his idea of an "ideal interlocutor", which may be a particular
imagined reader, or a particular imagined self. Or God.
All the best
A
Alison Croggon
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