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Douglas wrote, asked: >but the serious audience > for poetry has always been very small. Matter for discussion! (How > many copies of Lyrical Ballads were sold?). Not sur, Doug, 'cept it were pitiful, but I do recall that roughly three-quarters of the original run of 1000 copies of Paradise Lost was trashed. david bircumshaw ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]> To: Poetryetc <[log in to unmask]> Cc: British-poets <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 3:31 PM Subject: Strong Words > I am not sure which mailing list I should send this to so I will let > both see it. Apologies for cross-posting. > > The two articles I picked out of the Herbert/Hollis book were by > Eavan Boland and John Burnside. What EAvan Boland said that in the 20th > century the Moderns reformulated poetry but at the same time tried to > reformulate the reader, which in her opinion was a mistake, cos it > alienated and lost the readership for poetry. I am not too sure about > this. It may be true for the general public but the serious audience > for poetry has always been very small. Matter for discussion! (How > many copies of Lyrical Ballads were sold?). > > John Burnside sees poetry as alchemy (or magic) much stimulated by love > when the self gets involved with the other. This thinking appeals to > me very much. > > I cant say there is much else in the book that really catches my interest. > A trampolining of the Moderns making their statements, which I dont need > to see again. > > I am a bit bored and cant write so I think I will post some ancient poems. > I am reading John KInsella's new book at the moment but so far it hasnt > penetrated me the way The Hunt did. But I will persevere. I got more > instant enjoyment out of Julie O'Callaghan's Japanese poems last week. > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%