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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:01:17 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Online Dark Ages


>In fact, the "new formalists" would be quite annoyed at being called
>conservative. I popped this question to Dana Gioia at a panel discussion at
>Poet's House (before he skipped out to CA) and it precipitated a staunch
>denial.  In fact, most of the new formalists or expansive poets are prickly
>pears ready to fall on you (ouch!) if you suggest that they are
>conservatives.
>
>Regards,
>Eric Yost
>

That is not, therefore, a reason not to do it, or a reason to accept their
denial, the louder which becomes the less credible.

It is sort of interesting that Eliot is often taken as a conservative poet,
but all one has to do is listen carefully to his poetry deconstructing what
it appears to lament the loss of to find the, in spite of himself, high
romantic modernist, who would, I hope, roll over in his grave at  being so
classified.

T.S, T.S.

g




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