>a poet of postmodern sensibility will have a wider vocabulary, if not a
>freer hand in syntactic creativity.
Doesn't Shakespeare have the largest vocabulary of any English writer?
Closely followed by Joyce? (Or is it the other way around?)
Would this make Shakespeare the first post-modernist? Or is it compulsory
not to read him, being an aftershock of the canonical past?
Curiously yours
Alison
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