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I probably think that beauty has almost no value. Luke On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Tim Allen < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > The first time I came across a current poetry that I consciously called > 'beautiful', using the word in the same way we might of the best of > Romanticism, was when I read A Various Art, that classic anthology of what > got called the Cambridge School. Please discuss. Essays back to me by > Saturday morning latest - all except Peter, who's in it, so he's not > allowed. > > Cheers > > Tim > > On 31 Aug 2017, at 11:13, Jamie McKendrick wrote: > > The fact that no-one would dream of repeating Clare's clock-a-clay or > Shelley's Skylark doesn't mean that these poems have become redundant, and > if the concept of beauty that we can deduce from them or from Keats feels > distant to us then that surely is something worth exploring, but my view is > that it can only be done in other terms than the ones you're using (which > if I haven't misunderstood seem to adopt a linear view of progress within > the art). > > >