It was jokey but I meant it. I looked at the article and found there the
phrase.
I could always see the competence but there was innate in it a lot of
Crow's I am going to keep things as they are. If I quote correctly.
Apologies if not
High Modernism is not a phrase I would use.
I agree with you about Bunting... well, I am not much one for the hit
parade approach. Who is the very best? Who is the next?
As it is too early to judge the French Revolution, so...
Not a good joke, sorry. It probably is a good time. I reflected recently
upon my quiet contempt for my MA tutor's opinion that Wordsworth led STC.
30 years on I think maybe he was right.
Both of them may have been a pain, though hanging around the Salutation and
Cat, where Sam used to hide, might have been enjoyable; but I find myself
reading SOME Wordsworth more than I do Coleridge now. But does it matter.
But if it's a question of whom I return to of the recents then BB.
Earlier today it's getting dark here, I was praising Yeats. But BB
I'm not sure what I have said though.
I admit I know very little of Sisson's essays. I rejected the whole
caboodle deades ago when I rejected the people who sought to promote him to
me. I have gone back now and then to be sure I was right to do that
er
I think I'll shut up
L
On 20 November 2014 16:34, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I know the name more than the writing, I have to admit.
>
> Lawrence, to what was your skepticism directed? I am not sure what the
> reviewer means by 'high modernism,' & have to always remember that
> 'modernism' in England apparently meant to most all the writers who ignored
> what Pound had taught (& so excluded Bunting, to me the true modernist
> there).
>
> I can imagine enjoying Sisson's wit in his criticism; even admiring some
> of his poetry (but without seeing in it the formal strategies closest to my
> writing heart).
>
> Doug
> On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:12 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I have, had
> > but treated him with great scepticism
> >
> > L
> >
> > On 19 November 2014 21:49, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/18/a-ch-sisson-reader-charlie-louth-patrick-mcguinness-review
> >>
> >> - good to see CHSisson posthumously awarded a selected writings -
> >> but my guess is that most poetryetcers won't have heard of him till
> now...
> >>
> >> Max
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> that we are only
> as we find out we are
>
> Charles Olson
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