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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Subject: Re: didactic revival
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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