Karlien & sundries -
Sorry, I know it's frustrating to have folks say "I can provide chapter &
verse" and then not do so - but my reasons are very similar to Lawrence's:
to do a good job of identifying prosodic similarities in CP poets, I would
have to do some proper research. And funnily enough, that's what I propose
to do (I am shortly embarking on a long-delayed part-time PhD on recent
BritPo of the various avant-garde persuasions). But it's going to take a
long while.
I had thought to point out some stylistic quirks in Keston's recently
posted poem which might have identified its Cambridge provenance (no
disrespect to Keston - I enjoyed his poem). Only - aagh - I seem to have
accidentally deleted it along with a bunch of other stuff. What I was
thinking about was his double-epithets (which are also very Keatsian). Then
I would have had to scurry around and look for similar examples elsewhere
among the Cambridge diaspora. (Funnily enough, I think the _first_ wave of
CP poets are rather less easily identifiable as a stylistic group - it's as
though group-formation has taken a generation).
Let me reiterate what I said in a previous posting, though: there is no
Cambridge poetry, there is no Language poetry. To which I now add: there is
no London poetry.
And, of course, there is.
K
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