> Robin, I may be missing some other poems by Rosenberg, but Louse Hunting
> still seems to me to fit into my remark of a poetry, set beside
> Ungaretti's, that belongs to an earlier century - its vocabulary, for all
> that the grotesquerie is deliberate ("Yelling in lurid glee" etc.) and its
> capitalized personification ("Sleep's trumpet") all feel quite archaic...
Fair point about the language of "Louse Hunting", Jamie -- I think I was
blanking it out in my memory in favour of the visual impact the poem made on
me when I read it.
But all this reminds me of how monophonic I am, so my comments are going to
be much more limited than yours, Alison's and the Birk's, to name a few.
Robin
> Where the "what if" matters - is that Rosenberg may well been able to
> develop further along the lines of his Break of Day whereas Sassoon,
> though living, wasn't really able to go further. (It's a long time since
> I've read any of them so I don't make any great claim to accuracy.)
>
> Jamie
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