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

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