[New-Poetry] What has poetry taught you?

[Chris Lott]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 16:36, Robin Hamilton
<robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Odd to find an Irish poet misquoting Joyce, and equally odd that Heaney
> misses the irony of Joyce's giving the formulation to the then-still-naive
> Stephen Deadalus, and apparently takes it with complete seriousness.

Why do you assume Heaney misses the point?

Maybe he does. Or maybe by taking it seriously Heaney's making a very
different point about that very formulation, what is or isn't "naive"
and what we may be losing trying to move "past" it by assuming
Dedalus' growth is the only truth and/or a model for how all artists
should think. _Portrait_ is a fantastic novel, to be sure, but isn't
it possible that some might not agree wholeheartedly with every aspect
of it?

c