Dear Ric -
"making it new" seems of a quite lapsed importance - 'writing an
essay' is not an adventure involved in some kind of communal literary
prescience, and shouldn't be directed by that commitment or its
conscripts; wouldn't the reading lesson you propose be designed to make
abstruse modern texts seem familiar, when it has been a (tacit) defining
principle of those texts to defamiliarize themselves? Leaving them (the
texts) to languish un(der)noticed by all other than their few enthusiasts
(whose presence in HE institutions you account for) seems really quite
normal, unless it becomes imperative that the language of the age
officially include the language of these poetries, which implies, I think,
a poisonous recriprocality. Perhaps.
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