tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post134039869971882671..comments2024-03-28T11:28:31.364-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `The English Do Poetry'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-72179817211820638572018-04-25T08:56:30.574-05:002018-04-25T08:56:30.574-05:00"Yes, the Americans, for a brief spell, picke..."Yes, the Americans, for a brief spell, picked up the slack, but that tributary too has also run dry."<br /><br />Well, that's fairly sweeping, isn't it? How can you possibly compass what has been done in the past decades? It is a Niagara of material. Admittedly, I find a terrific amount of poetry in plain style free verse that descends from prose, not poetry, and never pleases me.<br /><br />How astonished the nineteenth century in this country would be to see Whitman and Dickinson as stars in the firmament of poetry. Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-289857646394198332018-04-21T02:05:39.739-05:002018-04-21T02:05:39.739-05:00An Englishman writing in English about the superio...An Englishman writing in English about the superiority of the English and their language over not just the rest of the Brits but about everyone else too. And they dare call the English parochial and insular!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com