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Re: Canto II & Prohibition
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Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:49:25 -0700
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Daniel Pearlman wrote:

> I'd guess that the best poets don't concern themselves much with
> alluding to current events in their poetry.

Yeats did, see "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen".  Derek Walcott does in
"Omeros".  Vikram Seth wrote a highly-contemporary Eighties novel in
verse, "The Golden Gate".  -Tim

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