Jeffrey Side wrote:
> For me, it all boils down to chronological precedence. Without Eliot et al. you wouldn’t have had the poetic development that made it possible for those you mention to have existed poetically. Eliot et al. gave permission (if you like) for all kinds of divergent streams of poetry to emerge.
And no one else would have if had not? I'd be the last to belittle
chronological precedence but the idea that no one but the first one to
do something could have done it don't make no sense to me.
--Bob
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