Mmmm... two of those names came to my mind as part of my schooling (1950s), and
nowadays I am wondering what has become of their - Johnsonian? tradition - 'the
common pursuit of true judgment ... in the discussion of poetry. Maybe one of
the 24 questions to come will elicit some of the tips I need. The assertiveness
that makes Johnsonians hard to take now will surely not return, but there are
many ways of hinting at one's authoritativeness while also inviting
disagreement.
Max Richards
Quoting Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
> No!
>
> And I was emphatically schooled in the evaluative criticism of F.R. Leavis,
> Yvor Winters,
> & Clement Greenberg.
>
>
> Barry Alpert
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:08:31 -0500, Gerald Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Taking a page from David Hilbert's well-known list of 23 "Paris Problems"
> (1900), and,
> likewise,
> >hoping to see solutions in this new century, I've formulated a list of
> questions, which of
> course
> >there is not the slightest connection between Hilbert's list of problems and
> this line of
> questioning.
> >
> >Not to mention the fact that many of my questions may contain the answers
> simply in
> the asking.
> >
> >Question # 1:
> >
> >Should any current poet be judged against only the very best works of the
> past?
> >
> >G. E. Schwartz
>
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