My experience, when I used to write, was that poetry was a dialect under or maybe a dialogue with the threat of finality. That was in the Nineties and parts of the Noughties before I found out it had returned to being an iteration of class in some cases. or a primitive aspiration towards the same in others. There are of course lots of nice people on the side of this cultural train-wreck, a lot of them are here. Best Dave On 7 August 2018 at 19:58, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > ######################################################################## 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