[New-Poetry] Il Miglior Fabbro

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Robin,
re your last point, so what seems true is that Dickinson can only be thought of as?the?major poet of 19th Century for poets post-1955. That has to leave Whitman in the catbird seat, where I'm sure he'd love to be, for the first half of the 20thC. (Along with melodious strains of Longfellow dying away against discordant modernist notes.)

The other name among the Moderns that hasn't been touted is Williams.??Numerically far exceeding?Pound's influence on later generations, I see Williams as being the American Modern who influenced the greatest number of?poets.

Finnegan


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From: Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com>
To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent: Fri, 23 May 2008 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Il Miglior Fabbro




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Doesn't change the fact that Emily Dickinson, rather than Whitman, is the major poet of 19thC America

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R.




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