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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:04:50 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: RE: Litersry butts


>George Trail wrote:
>
>> I would venture that the ultimate function of the critic/teacher is to
>act as a rhapsode for the work. <
>
>Are we speaking of the rhapsodising and teaching in the same manner in
>which Socrates described Ion (to Ion) in Plato's dialogue of the rhapsode's
>name?
>
>Kevin Goetz
>SUNY Oneonta
>goetks21-AT-snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu
>
>
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We are indeed, Sir. The critic, when she knows it, is in the service of the
work, is the interface with the public, who, as educator brings that public
into greater intimacy with that which is to be appreciated. To profess, in
this sense is to testify, as the religious understand it.

Bear in mind, however, that I can still think that "Stopping by Woods"
sucks, and regret hugely that its largest use is to introduce the youth of
these states to that most challenging of art forms, poetry.  And I must add
as well a statement of my pleasure in discovering that Bill Ball has
escaped intact, if not from Frost, at least from that poem. (If it is of
interest I share his enthusiasm for "Dover Beach" and "Sunday Morning" and
have reason to hope that I can, and eve have been, be the agent of a
greater appreciation of WW.)

cheers,
g




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