As I understand it, Auden, after or during WW2, flipped his politics
180 degrees. That Auden, rather the 30s version that he disowned,
might fit quite well with the New Forms.
Roger
On 1/21/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's true the NFs take their meter from Auden, then water it down; but they
> take their politics from the Agrarians. Gioia is a member of the Bush
> administration -- Commissar of Arts.
>
> jd
>
> On 1/21/07, Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Used to be represented in the UK (or Scotland/USA), maybe
> > > still are, by the magazine _Dark Horse_.
> >
> > Can't help feeling that Gerry [Cambridge, editor of DH] would prefer to be
> > called an 'old' formalist if he had to be labelled at all. As I understand
> > it, the mission is more restorative than innovative.
> >
> > P
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
>
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