Poe died in 1849. Baudelaire was at that time 28 and published no
poetry of any importance before 1857. Some dates of birth; Mallarmé
1842, Verlaine 1844, Rimbaud 1854. Baudelaire spent 14 years
translating Poe into French, 1952-1865.
PR
On 25 Aug 2009, at 18:49, Jeffrey Side wrote:
I don't know if Whitman's admiring Tennyson necessarily supports the
idea that in some way Whitman's poetry, is Tennysonian, and,
therefore, particularly British influenced. To me it does not appear to
be. It seems to be more akin to folk-song and rural story-telling
traditions.
Poe's poems may be better in French but his acuity in recognizing
French poetry's value is more important in terms of the American
development of what we call High Modernism.
And Yeat's, of course, was influenced, also, by the French Symbolists.
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:11:12 -0700, David Latane
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think the reports of British poetry's demise have been greatly
exaggerated; there's a reason Whitman referred to Tennyson as "The
Boss." Poe is notoriously better in French translation; to place him
above Yeats strikes me as ridiculous.
> I've encountered various manifestations of the "westering" motif--we
Americans love it of course, but there's something abject in it
appearing
so frequently among the British, when the poetic achievement of so
many 20th and 21st-century British poets is so high.
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> David Latane
> http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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> --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: "Has British Poetry had any significance since Wordsworth?"
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 6:30 AM
>
> New blog post:
"Has British Poetry had any significance since Wordsworth?"
This may seem an outlandish question, but I think it has some force
behind it. Of course, the influence of Wordsworth on contemporary
British mainstream poetry need hardly be stressed, and I have written
extensively about this elsewhere. It is because of this influence that
most of the celebrated British poetry of the Twentieth Century tended
towards mediocrity when compared to American poetry of the same
period.....
http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/
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