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Informal  Menace 

By STEPHEN METCALF
Published: February 11, 2007
Every  poet strikes his or her own balance between innocence and experience, 
and that  balance is easily lost. If lost to experience, the poet gets lost 
along with it:  to feline self-regard, to the sly messaging of the in-group. The 
danger to an  English poet is probably greater than to an American 
counterpart. There the  apparatus of public acclaim sits, spring-loaded and ready to 
descend upon the  promising young talent. This inevitably alters the way the 
promising young  talent thinks and feels and writes. Maybe it is preferable, when 
young, to be  stranded amid philistines than dandled by old toadies. 
 
The English poet James Fenton has survived the specter of his own immense  
promise.

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