There are many contemporary poetry critics whom I read for the pleasure of
their prose & for the pleasure of their pleasure: Helen Vendler, Christopher
Ricks, Marjorie Perloff, Denis Donahue, David Lehman, Timothy Steele, Mark
Jarmon, to name a few.
Eileen Abrahams
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
University of Texas at Austin
On 5/29/05 1:40 PM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Right on, Martin. I pretty well agree right down the line with you.
>
> The question I come to now is: who would I re-read, not only for
> pleasure, although Davenport provides a lot of that, but to learn
> something truly interesting.
>
> On the other hand, I do get that from many of Derrida's works, too.
>
> Paglia never had that kind of style...
>
> Doug
> On 29-May-05, at 7:22 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
>
>> Since I've been asked - Schadenfreude. The adjective is schadenfroh. I
>> found Camille very amusing & stimulating in SP, not so much in what
>> followed, which I have merely sampled. It/she seems repetitive &
>> obsessional. This review is apparently on the ball. CP obviously has no
>> idea about contemporary poetry & is just scattershooting from the hip.
>> It's like the broadsides aimed with dull regularity at so-called
>> difficult modern music (brrr - Schoenberg & Co.) Theory interests me
>> very little (since I seldom understand it - when I do it appears either
>> platitudinous or mad); I want the pleasures of the text & I want them
>> now. In this case (CP) the law of diminishing returns obtains - whereas
>> Guy Davenport, for example, just went on being as good as it gets, not
>> being ideologically driven. Are there any critics now active (Kermode
>> is
>> a survivor but one sees relatively little of him nowadays) whom one
>> reads as one did Empson, Kenner or Davenport - or, indeed, Duncan or
>> Thom Gunn - for the sheer enjoyment of the thing, while being
>> intellectually regaled? Heaney bores me, poetry or prose - which may be
>> my blankness. Und sonst?
>> mj
>>
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