Absolutely, & I believe, from the review I read, that Muldoon isn't
asking for a decoding game, but does suggest that most poets worth
their salt (cliché alert!) can't help but write allusively, & any
reader (ditto) will find part of their enjoyment in 'hearing' the
echoes....
We write in the intertext, can't avoid it....
Doug
On 17-Apr-07, at 3:46 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> The thing is, it really isn't about the decoding game. But even once
> you're out of the decoding game, there are still plenty of real
> differences - *formal* differences - between poets and poetics.
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