Second-rate is pretty damned good.
Hal
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On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I tend to agree with this, but there are some marvelous exceptions.
> Among my 'contemporaries' (by which I mean people still writing
> today), I'd mention the Canadian Margaret Avison, one of our finest
> poets, &, I think she fits, Fanny Howe.
>
> There are probably others, though few as good as these two.
>
> Poet as a kind of scientist? Hmnnn, perhaps....
>
> Doug
> On 16-Mar-06, at 7:38 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
>
>> I don't rule out religious poetry, but I have a hard time seeing
>> any written after the 17th century as more than second-rate.
> Douglas Barbour
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