Candice: < although I don't share your view of a break in Prynne's
poetry, seeing it rather in terms of a continuum that's continued beyond
some reader's tolerance (no doubt)>
Hi Candice,
'Dissociation-of-sensibility' arbitrary bullshit underlying most
'break'dancing, it's good to get your reaction. The only true _break_ in
jhp's career is between a 'disavowed' early book (remember that Holman Hunt?
painting- 'your child, Sir'?) and what followed. And timely for Nate to
remind us of that, I'd say.
What I most had in mind, I think, was that epigraph to _Brass_, hard to
see as other than sardonic, and-- while maybe a little short of 'no more Mr.
nice guy!'-- still a distancing gesture from that everpresent ethical
urgency of the early poetry, which as Robin Purves points out (in The Gig
#2) continues to saddle him with that 'The Conscience of England' (what
conscience??) handle: 'On eut crié 'bravo! Ouvrage bien morale! Nous étions
sauvés'. David Kennedy's post (The Less Received) reminds us that we could
resist the urge to scratch,
All best,
John
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