You may be right Dominic, but then the 'critic'/reader comes along &
takes a look, & wonders.
We do make judgements, & I tend to think that the more one knows of
that field (& perhaps the more one has done within it) will lend some
weight to such judgements. And that someone who has really studied her
kind of art or craft will likely make more interesting choices than one
who has not, or simply hasn't had the opportunity to do so.
Which leads to the readers' choices...
Doug
On 18-Nov-05, at 9:12 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> Almost nobody really writes as if one poem could not be
> better than another; almost everybody chooses at each decision point
> the better of the two or more possible poems they could have written.
Douglas Barbour
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Each leaf a runnel the
roofs now skiffs in green
I’ve never done anything
but begin.
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