From: "Jean Gilmour" <jean-AT-nurseadmin.wnp.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:43:49 +1200
Subject: Re: Strong Poets


Hi 

Prado ( "Starting with Foucault: An Introduction to Genealogy",  
1995) used the term "strong poet" from Harold Blooms work -(The 
anxiety of influence: A theory of poetry)  to describe Foucault's 
influence. Harold Bloom might not agree with this appropriation 
 given his criticism of Foucault along with Marx and feminists 
writers for the politicizing of literary study "Resentful historicists of 
several persuasions - stemming from Marx,Foucault, and political 
feminism- now study literature essentially as peripheral social 
history." (Bloom, p. xxv, 1997 ed).  Prado also cites Rorty's 
discussion about strong poets.    

Regards 
Jean

> Hello all:
> 
> Some time ago I remember reading an author who referred to
> Focault (among others) as a "strong poet". At the time, it
> had little connection to my work and so I made no effort
> to remember the author or the text in which the term
> appeared. Does this ring a bell to anyone out there?
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Reagrds,
> dan 
> 
>