Jamie, to ask me to answer this here is an impossible task. I could
throw-up names but then you would argue against them, and I would
argue back etc. It would never end.
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:17:34 +0100, Jamie McKendrick
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Jeff,
> I'm didn't acknowledge it, I'm afraid. I just said "You've spoken
about a
>prevailing tendency..." I'm still unconvinced about its existence, which
is
>why I was asking for examples and not caricatures.
> See my last post to Tim regarding - "conservative" - though, again,
you
>may be using the term without political connotations.
>Best wishes,
>Jamie
>From: "Jeffrey Side" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:10 PM
>Subject: Re: "Has British Poetry had any significance since
Wordsworth?"
>
>
>Jamie, I agree it may have seemed that my comment about 200 years
>of UK poetry hasn't been demonstrated with examples, but as you
>acknowledge it is a "prevailing tendency" and as such difficult to
>particularise without a caricature resulting.
>
>As far as I can tell, most of the responses from people on this forum
>(apart from Tim's) have been fairly conservative ones, despite any of
>their personal identification or not with poetry that is not conservative.
>I am particularly surprised at Peter's response in this respect, and also
>by Chris's. Perhaps, it just shows the extent of the conservative
>influence (acknoweledged or otherwise) even in the non-mainstream.
>
>
>On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:30:25 +0100, Jamie McKendrick
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Jeff,
>> I don't think that your point that "the mainstream always want
proof
>from
>>dissenters but seldom back their own claims up" is entirely upheld by
>this
>>discussion. Again, it might help to give a few examples. You've
>spoken about
>>a prevailing tendency in 200 years of British poetry, and quite a lot of
>>people who I wouldn't imagine were affiliated with the mainstream
>have asked
>>you for some proof. And quite a few of us have given examples which
>might
>>refute it.
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