Q1
Plainspeak is usually just another kind of fancyspeak.
Q2
Yes possibly, though I'm not sure what the alternatives are given the
superpowered resistance which now empowers the word order.
But you can see why people don't like being called members of the
"Cambridge School" -- there might have been all sorts of contacts and
discussions in the past which affected the way various people go about
their poetries. But look what happens-- the subject is brought up for
discussion, count five seconds and we're all talking exclusively about
J.H.Prynne again. It's like being nominated member of a school where only
the headmaster really exists.
I think it should be made absolsutely clear that there is no situation in
Cambridge poetry nor ever has been remotely like the crowd of sycophants,
as it seems, who fluttered round Olson and saw to his needs and tolerated
his brutishness and promoted his image into a sectarian awe very close to
the religious. Jeremy Prynne is one of those who made sure it would not be
like that.
The truth is that his poetry is unique and inimitable. it is not part of
any grouping and no grouping of British poets dedicates itself to defending
and explicating him; people do-- but not as members of a group of poets.
/PR
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