Don't get your second para Dave, but yes, have to agree with Celan. I
haven't read enough Vallejo yet.
On 30 Aug 2009, at 15:36, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> A point further, if I had to say who I thought the most
> 'significant' European language poets of the last century I'd
> unhesitatingly name Celan and Vallejo, both at their best go far
> beyond English language modernists in expression and connotation. It
> seemed so to me thirty years ago and still does now.
> So I have to say I find Jeffrey's focus in itself parochial. Poetry
> in England had its time of greatness, and a considerable length of
> time at that, but the focus of these things moves. I'd hazard that
> if there is to be really 'significant' poetry in this century it
> won't be in a European language at all.
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