Saturday, June 10, 2006

A very thoughtful piece ...

... at Bud Bloom Poetry: "An excellently smiling appropriate soldier" . Having just read Eliot's Four Quartets again for the umpteenth time, I think it worth noting that what Eliot really employed was mixed meter. There are in the quartets a number of passages in older forms - for instance, the section in "Little Gidding" derived from Dante's Commedia that uses Dante's terza rima.
At the workshop I participated in the other day at the West Chester University Poetry Conference I made the point that one of the uses of reviewing poetry is that it causes one to become acqauinted with a wider variety of poetry than one might have otherwise come to know. And my view is that the more and more different poetry you become acquainted with the less likely you are to fall under the influence of any one poet in particular.

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