[New-Poetry] looking for poems (and other writing) on "the idea"

[Halvard Johnson]

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"Anything is art if an artist says it is."
          --Marcel Duchamp

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On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Chris Lott <chris at chrislott.org> wrote:

> I'm in search of poems (and other writing) that has as its topic-- or
> as a significant theme-- the "idea" -- not so much ideas in general,
> but "the idea of the idea" ... what an idea is, how it works, how an
> idea came to one or was discovered. This probably seems pretty vague,
> but as some context: I am preparing for a keynote in which I am
> discussing the history of the concept of the idea from Plato through
> the transition to the idea as generating something new not revealing a
> pre-existing form and how that history is an important consideration
> when contemplating technology, education and creativity...
>
> I have a lot of philosophical, linguistic and etymological source
> material-- and some Dryden, Chaucer, Keats (negative capability) and
> Eliot (tradition and the individual talent)-- but am looking for a bit
> more.
>
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