Dear Jeffrey,
Intrigued by your remark:
"It is certainly true, one could argue, that from Poe to Eliot the influence of
French poets such as Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine was very much
present, but it was American poets rather than British poets who seem to
have had the perceptiveness to see something of value in these French poets
and appropriate it."
And it shows an extraordinary perceptiveness on Poe's part "to see something
of value in these French poets and appropriate it".
The poor Brits, without Poe's clairvoyance, have been condemned to 200
years "of Wordsworthian empiricism and parochialism". I look forward to further
classic updates on the blog,
Jamie
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