Keston Sutherland:
| Religious poetry may be of a decreased viability,
| relative to Donne's or even to Eliot's days, but that's surely more to do
| with the ardent, fanatic tugs of trendmakers at the publishing houses
than
| it is a sign that the mode/orientation of poetic inquiry is defunct.
Um... maybe... i am questioning the concept of _religious poetry_ - i dont
think i can accept that the change from a fairly theocratic society has
been the work of publishing houses
no form of poetic inquiry is defunct as such, surely; though it may be
defunct in the hands of many poets
| Besides, much new poetry is religious. Take Prynne's Her Weasels Wild
| Returning, for example. Why the "none of that here"? k
|
ok - but we are a long way from _eg Hopkins_ - when i wrote my last i was
thinking back to the multitudes of letters that used and possibly still do
go to Poetry Review with their defence appended _dear sir i am a christian_
if much new poetry is religious i will read it for the poetry not for the
religiosity - that it happens to be religious is beside the point to me
L
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