On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Keston Sutherland wrote:
> Besides, much new poetry is religious. Take Prynne's Her Weasels Wild
> Returning, for example. Why the "none of that here"? k
- well, one finds viability where one can. I'd imagine it'd be possible to
build a case for much of Prynne being "religious" in its *very* biggest
sense, certainly of course ethically driven. And whilst I'm concerned with
what makes or drives poems, I'm also aware that readers/critics are
sometimes over-willing to bring their own baggage to their readings: vide
Davie's squeezing of Bunting not simply into the religious box, but into
the protestant-christian box. Help! This kind of reading narrows
perceptions which I had thought we wanted to open up.
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