In a message dated 8/8/01 11:54:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] 
writes:

<<  I assume you are taking your lead from Bloom that Wallace Stevens and WCW 
are "the" modernist poets.  Not all would affirm Bloom's opinion. >>

Actually, it's my opinion - that the works of Stevens and Williams are - if 
not the heart of modernist poetry - then the core of it.  In fact, without 
Stevens, the world would be a different place.  I don't know if I can say the 
same for Eliot.  As much as I feel for him and his poetry, the legend of the 
grail preceded him and I would have discovered without him that much of this 
world is a waste land.


Kate