On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM, John Herbert Cunningham <
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> Here's a question to mull over: For much of poetic history, didacticism was
> accepted if not, outright encouraged. Then came the Romantic era along
> with the 'show, don't say' aphorism. Didacticism fell out of favour.
> However, poets now are looking to medieval and baroque forms to provide
> structure to their poetry. Some, Lisa Robertson being a prime example,
> have
> gone back to the ancient Greeks and Romans - Virgil, in Robertson's case -
> to 'make it new'. In doing so, are they reviving didacticism as an
> acceptable form for, let's face it, Robertson's poetry is extremely
> didactic?
>
>
Maybe Didacticism fell out of favor among high literati, but most poetry
that people actually use is didactic, and has almost always been so. So if
the high artists are finally catching back up with the public, I suppose...I
dunno...well, *shrug*
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