Hi David,
you make my point again for me.
the binary is unsustainable. poetry is all about performance
both on and off the page
pretty much all over tha planet
cris
On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:37 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> cris cheek wrote on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:25:19 -0400
>
> " . . but since it's clear that poetry has for several thousand years been
> (in many cultures) integrally implicated in the deveopments of performance,
> from early epic through the mead halls into contemporary rap . the
> non-western acceptance that poetry is to be enjoyed both through reading on
> the page and being explored off the page
>
> what on earth is the problem here?
>
> point-scoring is as addled a past-time in respect of poetry on the page as
> off the page"
>
> I agree, point-scoring poetry is an addled pastime, so in what context would
> anyone want to 'quantify' 'quality' in poetry? Which was the question asked.
>
> Other than that, I am interested in your version of literary history, this
> one where say Tennyson or Dylan Thomas or Wordsworth rejected the performing
> of poetry, as did the Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights, or the whole of
> Russian poetry, or Lorca, or Miguel Hernandez, while that most literary and
> textual poetic culture in China has presumably migrated across a continent.
>
> best
>
> dave
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