Too Browning. Too pontifical. Too easy.
I should say that in my world he never had much status--we all found
Williams and Pound more interesting.
Ashbery, like most of us, is a magpie, but I'd guess he'd mention
Wallace Stevens and a bunch of French guys first.
Mark
At 06:01 PM 3/27/2006, you wrote:
>On 28/3/06 7:58 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > You have to listen to Eliot closer, Mark.
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>I just read Four Quartets again the other day. It's still marvellous. I
>don't understand why people get so peeved at Eliot; is he too dominant? Too
>linked with Leavis (?) Is it simply that his poems are too beautiful?
>Ashbery strikes me as someone who draws most interestingly from Eliot's
>music; say parts of Flow Chart...
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>Best
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>Alison Croggon
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