Or generative or gives birth to or procreative of or pregnant with. Poor Eliot
and Pound with their birthing envy.
Nancy
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It's seminal to the growth of language.
Cheers,
Peter.
Dr. Peter C. Montgomery
Dept. of English
Camosun College
3100 Foul Bay Rd.
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Subject: Re: Grammar (you and I)
In a message dated 4/7/03 9:43:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Grammar is central to any genuine poetics because it is a constant cue to
relations of words and phrases. And in poetry it is fundamental to see
nuanced relations. Sorry, but I think only amateurs think otherwise
My God, absolutely. Nancy is right -- too bad so damn many poets are
amateurs. Michael
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