[New-Poetry] Prolific poetry

[Bob Grumman]

A trivial remark: Stevens has never struck me as a prolific poet.  His 
collected is around 500 pages.  A good number of poems, sure, but I'd 
say about average.  My collected would be about a third of that but I'm 
sub-Eliot in quantity.  The Complete Cummings, on the other hand, is a 
little over a thousand pages.  And I don't think of him, either, as 
madly prolific. Wouldn't Wordsworth fill two thousand pages or more?  
And Byron would equal Stevens, I bet, in a much shorter life.But I don't 
really know.  Jarrell was extremely unprolific, so slanted, I would 
say.  But I've certainly  never researched any of this.  Just guessing.  
Out of curiosity.

--Bob G.

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