> I can't see how anyone would consider The 4 Quartets a
modernist poem.
I obviously don't perceive the same borders but fair
enough - it's the first time I've seen the mainstream conceded a major poem. Not
my favourite Eliot - but I'll take it.
As for Spanish - you have to start somewhere but I'm
beginning to read mas de ultramar, and have translated the Mexican David
Huerta (for a chapbook published by the Poetry Translation Centre).
Best,
Jamie
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:14
PM
Subject: Re: Chris Hamilton Emery on the
elusive nature of a "poetry establishment"
A couple of things. I mean the end of the decade. Auden's
presence and the ascendancy of "The Fugitives" played a big role in the US.
I can't see how anyone would consider The 4 Quartets a modernist
poem.
Contemporary Spanish poetry is for the most part pretty bad.
Contemporary Spanish language poetry is another matter, and it's by far the
larger field.
Best,
Mark