Hope it's OK to poke again? Seems like poets tend to be concerned with both consistency and variety. As with coherence and incoherence I guess. But, I was wondering, is artistic autonomy the consistent use of historical materials? Maybe Adorno says this about music (even if impossible). Is that a goal in any poetics, consistency, and informed by the past, literature etc.? Cheers, Luke ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1