>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? _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com