In message <[log in to unmask]>, Peter Larkin
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> I don't know
>whether Jones recorded the whole of SL or just extracts. Perhaps Alan
>Halsey knows?
Sorry, no, I don't. But Jones coming up again reminds me of Martin's
remark about a week ago about DJ using Welsh & Latin - I forget M's
precise words but the idea was that DJ used the other languages to keep
his writing at arm's length. Which seems to me true, if only an extreme
case of what any poet has to do, to keep his language as object or as
Laura Riding might have said object-material. The problem being that it
easily slides into something not far off self-parody & I do feel this
happened with DJ. Not so much with the Welsh & Latin as with, to pick up
another thread of this exchange, his assumed accent, street-London
adapted to trench warfare. His use of this in the later work as Roman
soldier-speak just seems subject to the law of diminishing returns: a
sad decline from the vital & integrated use of it in In Parenthesis.
A
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