Again, this Anglo-American bias.
Of course a lot of people across the English speaking world still
write poetry as if there was no Waste Land or Joyce or Stein, but not
all poets from the English speaking countries ignored what was
happening in Europe - if they did we would not have had the good stuff
that we had. Why is it that the huge French influence on American
poetry (particularly the later stuff, as the early French things
gradually got translated and gradually began to seep in) still gets
sidelined - a lot of commentators seem to restrict the extent of this
to Ashbery.
Brit avant and innovative poetry definitely had its roots as much in
European stuff as it did American - it depends on the poet of course.
i've always found the Spanish influence on America, particularly
through Lorca, talked about a lot more than the French one.
The French influence on Joyce was bloody huge too, as it was on
Beckett of course.
On 25 Apr 2010, at 12:58, Jeffrey Side wrote:
> Let’s put it this way, without The Waste Land, Joyce and Stein, we
> would still be writing poetry like Browning.
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> Meanwhile, Jeffrey, what paradigm-shift of note is it that overshadows
> all innovations since? I still have found out.
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