Quoting Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
> My sense is that the New Formalists do their best to pretend Ransom
> especially doesn't exist -- he would call into question the tight cosy
> little world of metrical constriction that they persist in locating
> somewhere in the less interesting work of W.H.Auden.
>
> (Hm -- I've been in trouble elsewhere for naively pointing out the occasions
> where we find what might be called straight lifts from Auden in Dana Gioia.)
>
> The dipodic element in Ransom (more marked in "Captain Carpenter" than in
> "Piazza Piece") doesn't fit with the remit they lay down. But don't start
> me ...
Is Dipodic a no-no-? How can I avoid it?
Max R
------------------------------------------------------------
This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au
|