is eliot usamerican or british? isn't he a hybrid of the two? he said "[My
poetry] wouldn't be what it is if I'd been born in England, and it wouldn't
be what it is if I'd stayed in America. It's a combination of things."
being in canada, we get a kind of a mix of uk and usamerican in a lot of
things. music, for instance. rock and roll is so brit/usamerican. people
around here 'think' usa when they 'think rock n roll' but the main bands are
mostly brit. the beatles, the stones, led zepplin, pink floyd etc.
i don't think the brits need worry too much about their poetry. particularly
when the borders are permeable. it's when the borders start to harden up and
become more inflexible that problems arise. however, that's true not only of
the british situation but anywhere. here in canada the dullest, dumbest,
most insipid and conservative literary force is nationalism. it's a moron
magnet.
what's interesting these days is not so much what's distinctively or purely
x as genuinely xozy.
ja
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