Some rhetorical force, perhaps, but I would wonder nevertheless.
Even within the possibilities of innovation, I cant see not mentioning
at least the major works of Basil Bunting & David Jones.
Yes, poetry hasn't much 'place' outside of all the poets, but I'm not
sure it has been as present as either fiction or drama since I dont
know when...
And there has been Britain's own more or less 'language' group(s) over
the past 40 years or so, with its effect.
Doug
On 25-Aug-09, at 4:30 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote:
> New blog post:
>
>
> "Has British Poetry had any significance since Wordsworth?"
>
> This may seem an outlandish question, but I think it has some force
> behind it. Of course, the influence of Wordsworth on contemporary
> British mainstream poetry need hardly be stressed, and I have
> written extensively about this elsewhere. It is because of this
> influence that most of the celebrated British poetry of the
> Twentieth Century tended towards mediocrity when compared to
> American poetry of the same period.....
>
>
> http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/
>
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