You might not like it jamie, but for as long as the mediocre and dull
are held up by the broadsheet hacks and current Poetry Review critics
as being the best of British while treating the names on cris's list
as some kind of eccentric anomaly, a bit exotic and interesting but
not really 'it', then names like Whitman and Dickinson are going to be
shunted around thus. The antipathetic relationship between mainstream
British poetry and the modernisms and post-modernisms is a fact, so
stop trying to pretend otherwise. This antagonism seems to be
something particular to the English speaking world, or far more
pronounced and stubborn at least. Why?
Tim A.
On 26 Aug 2009, at 14:00, Jamie Mckendrick wrote:
> Baudelaire as a poet - and even the history of his reception -
> interests me
> intensely, and I don't like to see him, or for that matter
> Wordsworth, Whitman
> and Dickinson, shunted around like pawns in a specious manouvre to
> vilify
> contemporary British poetry.
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