Well, yes, that 'common sense' which isnt. Whoo boy. I agree with your
2nd sentence, for sure.
I have no problem in recognizing 'that free verse too often becomes an
excuse for writing poor verse'; but the same applies to a lot of what
its practitioners call 'formalist' verse (as if 'free verse' were not
a form, nor other forms of invention).
It is interesting that quite a few politically 'leftist' writers do
(or did) use trad forms, Alison, as you pointed out...
Doug
On 13-Apr-10, at 7:40 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> What I so loosely called "conservative poetics" is pretty easy to
> spot. It's a poetics which deplores anything that does not claim
> unmediated transparency, and which calls the most surprising range of
> writings "obscure" and "difficult" (whether they are or not), and
> which defaults to current orthodoxies and status. The poetic
> equivalent, I suppose, of "common sense". One example in the theatre
> is David Hare.
>
> xA
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