well said, Dave. and thanks for those reports.
I hope to hear comments on the contrast with latinate poetry.
Max
On 13/05/2012, at 3:35 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I should add, Doug, that he continued along the lines of that 'they were
> figures of his torment'. Not an exact quote, but my paraphrase. He also
> said something on the lines of how Larkin as a poet started out like Yeats
> and became like Hardy yet Larkin poems characteristically begin with
> Hardyeque detail yet aspire to something like a Yeatsian afflatus. You
> could say they start from the particular and swell towards the general,
> something not unknown in English poetry (take Donne for example) and rather
> the reverse of Latinate languages (e.g. French).
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