Fair enough, Barry. And thanks for the explanation.
Candice
--- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Candice,
>
> Simply the mention of Tuckerman & Very. I don't
> disagree with the old
> chestnut about Whitman & Dickinson, but I can't say
> I've learned anything
> in particular from them or felt pleasure in the
> reading experience. Just
> my taste interfering--I wouldn't generalize from it
> in this regard.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:45:24 -0700, MC Ward
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Barry, what made you laugh at Winters' evaluation?
> I
> >hope it wasn't the inclusion of Emily Dickinson,
> the
> >only one of the three who have, as they say,
> lasted.
> >It is pretty well old hat to claim that Dickinson
> and
> >Whitman launched modern American poetry--too true
> for
> >any rebuttal now.
> >
> >Do you disagree?
> >
> >Candice
> >
> >
> >
> >--- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Yvor Winters once wrote:
> >>
> >> "F.G. Tuckerman was one of the three most
> remarkable
> >> poets of the
> >> nineteenth century. The others were Jonas Very
> and
> >> Emily Dickinson."
> >>
> >> Since I had never heard of Tuckerman & Very when
> I
> >> encountered this dictum,
> >> I probably responded with laughter, though later
> I
> >> learned there were quite
> >> a number of true believers. N. Scott Momaday was
> >> one, and I suspect poet
> >> laureates Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass were too,
> at
> >> least for a while.
> >> Nineteenth century American lit was never my
> field,
> >> but even today I own
> >> editions of the work of Very and Tuckerman, at
> least
> >> partly because I
> >> respect the collectibility of the Wintersians, no
> >> matter how odd some of
> >> the evaluations may seem today.
> >>
> >> Barry Alpert
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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