PS to an earlier ramble: I'm forgetting the Etruscan Readers - only have
2 so far myself (1 & 3) but the cast list is an interesting mix of the
young & promising and mature poets - some from the Thames, some from the
northern burns, some from across the pond (the British Isles, including
Orkneys, US, Canada, Eire). So maybe this series balances the Penguins
well enough. In its own right it looks nicely inclusive. Scrap call
for a Reactivated: it's already there.
Anyone remember a Geoffrey Grigson antho, which I've lost custody of:
think it was called "Eye & Vision" with plates by John Piper & others of
that era. Personally I liked the courage of that collection to
sometimes only include a line or two that met the ed's needs. And of
course Louis Zukofsky's "Test of Poetry" would be another interesting
model to consider in light of contemporary work - how does the test go
...? "...the range of pleasure it affords as sight, sound &
intellection." Hmmm, pleasure. I look to some other old words "beauty"
& "wisdom", although I should no doubt dress them up in more accurate or
subsersive terms, maybe in our times when "Shallow Rules" they're just
subsersive enough.
Here endeth...
Pete.
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