Well, I couldnt get in, but I guess the real problem here is just who
'the common reader' is. And do any of them read or listen to poetry
( what does any one of them mean by that term?).
What always surprises me is how well people who are caught in a poetry
reading (as, say, students in a class where the prof brings one in)
'get' so much.
So I'm not sure who Armitage is speaking about, but I have seen, in
many critical surveys, a sense that modernism as promoted by Pound
et.al., 'didn’t quite catch on.'
Doug
On 24-Sep-09, at 1:35 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> The Daily Free Press at Boston University has just published an
> article
> about Simon Armitage at
> http://www.dailyfreepress.com/simon-armitage-speaks-on-poetry-art-1.1907598in
> which was reported:
>
> Armitage also drew a distinction between American and British
> poetry. In
> the United States, he said, “poetry imploded into the universities.”
>
> “In the States, poetry is campus-based,” he said. “A lot of poets
> are housed
> in universities where they are respected and looked after. In the
> UK, [I
> have a] general feeling modernism didn’t quite catch on. I think in
> the UK,
> poets like myself tend to write for the common reader.”
>
> END
>
> That sounds very condescending to 'the common reader' to me. Any
> thoughts?
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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