[New-Poetry] Re: Rating the Housman

[Michael Snider]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> 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
>
> What do you mean by new? Seems to me saying something in a memorable and
> beautiful  way is new enough — unless you've plagiarized!
>
>
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