It might be interesting to point out non poets who are/have been responsible
for progress in the art...

joe brennan

In a message dated 03/24/2002 11:13:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Pound would have been beligerant to the comments of any person,
> non-poet and established poet alike, making any critical comment
> towards his work.  The notion that a non-poet (or even a poet with a
> significant body of work who is not recognized by the poetry police)
> can't have anything worthy to say about poetics is nothing more than
> CONTEMPT (probably a symptom of his narcicistic personality disorder --
> but I am a non-psychiatrist diagnosis his contemptuous attitude so you
> can dismiss me.)  Any person's -- whether academic or not, poet or not,
> established or not -- who theorizes, analyzes, criticizes, should have
> their theory, analysis, criticism evaluated on it's own merits, rather
> than being summararily dismissed because it doesn't conform to the
> notion that only established and recognized poets (usually by the
> poetry police) have anything worthy to say about poetry (the opposite
> is true as well.)
>
> JS
>