You're aware that Alison is talking about the 17th century?
At 06:32 PM 4/13/2010, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > I think Les is one of those people who needs poetry to articulate
> > himself. One of my favourite poems of his is the one about his
> > autistic son, which I also suspect is a little about himself.
> >
> > And thanks for the Milton quote, David. People seem to forget that
> > Milton was ferociously avant garde and a revolutionary. I guess those
> > who use his poetics to defend conservative writing would forget his
> > strictures against rhyme.
> >
>
>Sometimes a fool is just a fool. People who think that poetic form has some
>bearing on politics infuriate me. I have no idea how the prejudice came
>about that hippies write in free verse and that Reaganite-Thatcherites write
>in form, but I'd love to take a stick of dynamite to that rot.
>
>
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