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From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Fred Beake's cogitations on feet >Fred Beake to Ric Caddell > 1. As regards your last paragraph, no I am NOT being >invidious towards anyone. As to the idea that I should be being unpleasant >in some unspecified way towards Bill Griffiths, or Maggie O'Sullivan, both >of whose work I have loved for twenty years, and premoted whenever I have >had the chance, the least said probably the better. > 2. You clearly don't like my ideas, which is fair enough, >but what are yours? I notice with wearisome regularity that poets of >whatever persuasion will not discuss rhythm, as if it were some great >taboo. This is getting about as silly as its inversion, the obsession of >the 18th century with the heroic couplet, and it will kill Free Verse dead >before we are finished. It was not how the great Modernists worked. Right >down to Ginsberg writing out all the Greek feet in his journal in the >Fifties they were obsessed with how what they did worked, Bunting of course >not least (as you perfectly rightly observe). So, what are YOUR views? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%