>From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>    <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Those who can do. Those who can't cant.
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:28:15 -0800
>
>At 05:20 PM 22/03/02 -0500, R.Gancie/C.Parcelli wrote:
> >There's a certain desperation in the Neo-Formalist camp that
> >is akin to the Langpos. They want acceptance at the
> >imaginative level but they have produced no viable canon of
> >work.
>
>There are of course very fine living poets who write
>(at least occasionally) in formal structure: Vikram
>Seth and Derek Walcott come to mind.  I'm not aware
>of any instances of these artists expressing an opinion
>that they have a monopoly on the One True Form, nor
>are they prone to fling epithets such as "degeneracy".
>
>There's a lesson here.  -Tim


"formal structure" ?

would that be Homer or Frost?
Houseman or Milton?

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