Pounders: >>From a literary-historical point of view, that change in the law is >interesting for the way it reflects literary reality. If the twentieth >century had turned out like the nineteenth or the seventeenth, the >lawmakers might not have had to act. Do Keats or Jonson pass into the >public domain toward the end of their centuries? No problem; there's still >money to be made from Tennyson or Dryden. Some centuries are productive all >the way through. But in the eighteenth century most of the important work >was done in the first half, and as of now it appears the twentieth century >also followed that pattern. are you truly so quick to dismiss Seamus Heaney or Gunter Grass or Thomas Pynchon or Octavio Paz or Don DeLillo or Jeanette Winterson or Robert Pinsky or Mo Yan or Toni Morrison or Kenzaburo Oe or Italo Calvino or Wang Wen-hsing or Georges Perec or Anthony Hecht or Julio Cortazar or Naguib Mahfouz or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Chinua Achebe or Mario Vargas Llosa or Galway Kinnel or Elizabeth Bishop or W. S. Merwin or Charles Wright or ? Lucas . . Lucas Klein [log in to unmask] 8080,8080,0000A young Muse with young loves clustered about her ascends with me into the æther, . . . And there is no high-road to the Muses. 0000,8080,0000 Ezra Pound, Homage to Sextus Propertius