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