I don't see why our attitudes as poetry writers towards the information
about AIDS and S. Africa has to be different from what it has always
normally been in such matters.
That it is very important to know about it.
A mind which doesn't know about it, or above all doesn't care, will produce
different poetry from a mind which does.
There's an instance which I've been looking for in my notes but can't
find.(I can never find these things when I want them). I think it was
Germany in about the 1830s, there were immense economic problems,
threatening the very subsistence of large numbers of people. And the great
Mörike started writing poems about BUTTERFLIES! Heine was particularly
incensed, I remember.
/PR
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