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Don't get your second para Dave, but yes, have to agree with Celan. I haven't read enough Vallejo yet. On 30 Aug 2009, at 15:36, David Bircumshaw wrote: > A point further, if I had to say who I thought the most > 'significant' European language poets of the last century I'd > unhesitatingly name Celan and Vallejo, both at their best go far > beyond English language modernists in expression and connotation. It > seemed so to me thirty years ago and still does now. > So I have to say I find Jeffrey's focus in itself parochial. Poetry > in England had its time of greatness, and a considerable length of > time at that, but the focus of these things moves. I'd hazard that > if there is to be really 'significant' poetry in this century it > won't be in a European language at all.