[New-Poetry] difficult poetry

[Roger Day]

When did the difficulty debate start? Or has there always been this
under-tow against some sorts of poetry?

Allusiveness hasn't always - and I don't think is - confined to
academia. Donne - he of the quietude - wasn't he allusive? Eliot?
Pound? Not all of them require you to know what they're alluding to
... I think.

I dunno. I disagree with the stereotypes being bandied about here.

Roger
On 4/24/07, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
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> http://www.slate.com/id/2164823/
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> In Praise of Difficult Poetry
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> by Robert Pinsky
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> This time, let's take up a serious issue: the stupid and defeatist idea that
> poetry, especially modern or contemporary poetry, ought to be less
> "difficult." Should poets write in ways that are more genial, simple, and
> folksy, like the now-unreadable work of Edgar Guest (1888-1959)? Guest's
> Heap o' Livin' sold more than a million copies (in the days when a million
> copies was a lot), and he had his own weekly radio show. But Guest's
> popularity is history, while every day people still read the peculiar,
> demanding poems of Guest's approximate contemporaries Marianne Moore and
> Wallace Stevens. People still read the poems of Moore and Stevens because
> they don't wear out, because they surprise and entice us—and maybe, in part,
> because they are difficult?
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