[New-Poetry] Il Miglior Fabbro

[James Cervantes]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:21 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> 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.


Pound, Dickinson, Williams.  What poetry, stemming from which influence, do
you  like now?  Or, is this all academic, and we admit we all stem from all
influences?

-- Jim
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