I crosspost most of my messages to `britpo'.
In the pub I have been thinking about Hughes/Plath. I came to the
conclusion that they were the Yin/Yang of poetry. (Is that the right
order?). Hughes with his Augustan verses on his life with her, which
really cant be too highly praised, and Plath with her bloodjet of
poetry (I have been there. I understand what she's talking about).
As to 20-30 great poems that is surely an exaggeration. But there
are a handful. It comes down to poet against poems. And there the
poems always win. I will wait to see what the poetry reviewers
make of it all. But I cant help feel that Fred is predujiced
for local reasons.
And I am now looking at Helen Macdonald from Nick's Etruscan Books.
She has a way with language. The ultimate of the Cambridge school.
But what is she talking about? I reiterate my question on John
KInsella. Do you want to be a postmosdern and repudiate the Enlightenment.
My entire background is scientific.
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