So what I seem to be saying is that the work of art (poem etc)
is a window into the imaginative world of its creator.
And a great picture can be constructed like the works
Rimbaud envisaged building on the writings of Michelet.
But the individual components must stand up to scrutiny
as works of art in themselves. Think of how many poets
whose Collected POems you actually want to read. Very few.
No score in the football yet (or in the Neucamp).
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Douglas Clark wrote:
> A great poet (or writer) creates his own world. It was David
> Constantine's MLA monograph on Holderlin's topography that
> brought this home to me, with its sideways look at Hardy's Wessex.
>
> Back to Manchester United v Bayern Munich!
>
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
>
|