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> From: http://www.atlantisjournal.org/ARCHIVE/30.2/2008Monnickendam.pdf
poets have been shirking contact with life. They have become
increasingly introverted, frequently ignoring questions whose principal
concern is not the poet's mind. Her point is that dealing with reality
is something which canonical English poetry has done marvellously; she
cites Shakespeare, Crabbe and Byron as examples. Previously, she says,
English poetry was flll of characters rather than the poets' muse.
Perhaps the Romantic concept of the artist's uniqueness is her real
target. She implies that contemporary poets are unable to write about
reality in its most basic, mimetic sense because they are so obsessed
with questions of form
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