But isn't it the ghost, or trace of the didactic - the didactic as
hanging construct etc?
Tim A.
On 24 Apr 2010, at 15:02, John Herbert Cunningham wrote:
> A great deal of Lisa Robertson's poetry is built up on the
> shoulders of
> Virgil, as she freely admits. 'XEclogue' is Virgil's Eclogue. 'The
> Weather'
> is Virgils' Georgic. Both of these are highly didactic forms and,
> as used
> by Robertson, remain so to a large extent.
> John Herbert Cunningham
>
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> Could you expand on that John. I've gone through layers of Lisa
> Robertson's and pretty sure I went through the didactic layer pretty
> quickly.
>
> Tim A.
>
> On 23 Apr 2010, at 22:01, John Herbert Cunningham wrote:
>
>> Robertson's poetry is extremely
>> didactic?
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