[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[Halvard Johnson]

Oh, Keats was always very young.

Hal

"Leisure is necessary to any form of civilization
  higher than that of ants, apes, Kipling and his
  cousin Stan Baldwin."
                            --Ezra Pound

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On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:

> The Mole is probably referring to Keats's remark about Coleridge.   
> But, remember, Keats was very young.
>
> And, yeah, Jeff, I live in doubt and uncertainty.  Takes me three  
> hours to dare sit down on what I think may be the chair in my study  
> for fear it may be something not in Horatio's philosophy that will  
> devour me.  On the other hand, who knows whether being devoured is  
> bad or not.  Or whether it would really be me who is being  
> devoured.  Poetry should certainly open us up to these  
> possibilities.  Perish forbid it should ever bring us cheek to jowl  
> with . . . some kind of (yuck) Final Verity.
>
> --Bob
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