[New-Poetry] Re: Rating the Housman

[Bob Grumman]

Michael Snider wrote:
> Finnegan, I was too narrow as well. Just reminding us of some deep 
> part of our nature and our relation to the rest of the world, not 
> necessarily in a new way, but just returning it vividly to our minds, 
> may be a lesser thing than presenting "an old thing in a new way, from 
> a different/overloked angle/perspective," but it's no small beer, much 
>  less failure.
I don't believe you can make something in poetry vivid without 
presenting it in some new way, however small.  As I hope to argue if you 
guys don't stop distracting me(!), the Housman does this, in my view, 
and not in a small new way but in more than one new way, and possibly in 
at least one unsmall new way.

--Bob