Ric,
Thanks for the fine and persuasive compare`n`contrast re: Flock and
North. The fact that it exists (yr c`n`c mithering) makes the
originary point: that comparison is possible, nay, enlightening.
Tho` I accept your thrust that no poem in North uses the same words as
Flock, in the same order. (Bunting and Ted Hughes, incidentally, are
another two poets who never accidentally wrote exactly the same
poem.)
I`ll backchannel the T.A. Clark thing to you - it`s unpublishable in
any format.
robin
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