Jamie, you must be one of the very few people left who don’t think Richards’s poetic theories are conservative. New Criticism, born of his ideas, has been noted for its poetic conservatism from at least the late 1960s. It is hardly any longer a controversial position to hold.
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Sorry Jeff,
I'd missed the endnotes, but also missed the similarity in register with
the quotes from Sydney and Fletcher. No polemical import here either!
I don't see Forrest-Thompson's aesthetic nor for that matter I.A.Richards's,
as sketched in the article, as "conservative". Though I've a feeling we've
disagreed in this area before.
Best, Jamie
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