Alison: Also, as usual, Hurriedly:
It's been years since I've thought of Masefield. Though I can't agree
with you that Masefield belongs in the background (I rather feel why not
embrace all our infatuations without embarrassment), I do have a
question: was it not Masefield who habitually raped Prostitutes??
Gabe-o
On Tue, 25 May 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hurriedly:
>
> >The trouble with poetry aesthetics that are conducted by the highly educated
> >is that it becomes easy to insulate an aesthetic terrain from other
> >poetries,
> >scorned as half-baked, boring, etc. Practitioners who (whatever their
> >ordinary social world) keep in poetry to tight intellectual circles don't
> >often have to go round the regional writing clubs or run writing workshops
> >where decent people may be honestly bewildered by verbal textures that are
> >too dense, don't know how to interpret swift cultural moves beyond their
> >ken,
> >and genuinely like poetry I find a little boring.
>
> Doug anticipated a thought I was revolving in my head about a naive
> response to poetry which I think it's a shame to forget, a loss to
> forget, even as you move on. And which certainly must never be sneered
> at. When I was 12 I thought John Masefield and William Blake were the
> bees' knees. Blake has survived into adulthood and Masefield has faded
> into the shadows where he belongs: but that doesn't mean he wasn't an
> important part of my learning to love poetry. And why else would you
> read and write it? Lately I have been having inchoate thoughts about a
> necessary crudity in art, which is kind of connected with this. But,
> like I said, they're inchoate.
>
> Best
>
> Alison
>
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