Chris Jones wrote:
> First, apologies, this is just another one of those days reading and
> listening to the internet.
>
> One of the the things I often come across is this almost urgent need of
> US academics to find a rational reason, open and yet always closed, to
> explaining poetry and it's production.
>
> Just wondering if I am not the only one. In the sort of art school
> training I have, rational thought was beyond even the philosophy
> department, if it could be called that.
>
> Just curious... rational explanations of things may be a USA sort of
> thing???
>
Not in my American experience as a person who believes that scientific
materialism is the only way to explain things, although there are other
effective ways to understand things, which is different. I find that
it's simply old C P Snow's two cultures. Artists, particularly poets,
are generally impervious to rationality. No horror like the poet's,
American or otherwise, exposed to the horror of having his sacred craft
named and defined by someone like me.
--Bob
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