Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:37:24 -0800
From: "T. Q. Alexander" <rattler-AT-thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: [H-BLOOM] Western Canon University (www.westerncanon.com) The Online  Renaissance


I went to their site. I even signed "Aboard" their discussion, but I must say
I will not throw away my Charles Bukowski even though I have a love for Whitman,
Joyce, Conrad and can read the difference between. No, I understand their passion, but to
ideology, like most things in life, benefits in moderation or rather balance. I really do
like the motif that they have chosen, as well as the works that they seemed to be centered
upon, but once again, I cannot throw away all modernists, liberal or otherwise. What I can
do is make use of their site, and support in the discussion of the literature.

Something as in a movement of some type is needed I think, almost required of, or so it
feels, for this, my generation, to be identified in. That there is some form of genre or
mile stone if you will that we need to create or rebel around as "our" movement and
contribution. The "Lost Generation" had Sartre, Hemingway . . . The Boomers have Sontag,
Updike . . . George Trail has Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles . . . I do not want to be left
with Kurt Coban and Grundge.

As to the Cannon, that creates it's self, or rather, humankind immortalizes good works.

I think their on the mark as to their description of professors though . . . hmmmm
Me


deaun wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Reg Lilly wrote:
> >
> >       The guys who put up these web sites sound like they are stuck in a bad episode
> > of TV's blessedly defunct "Fantasy Island."  They announce the upsurge of
> > "Conservative Literature."  Does anyone have any idea what 'conservative poetry'
> > is?
>
> It's written by poets who think that truth - and not politics - is
> embedded in their poetry.
>
> deaun.
>
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