Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years: Where is the Poet?
Posted by JD Spencer on January 10, 19100 at 13:56:49:
Just this weekend I read John Haines brief
essay concerning Jeffers, which pointed me toward
Horace Gregory's essay Poet Without Critics, that
then left me rereading Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand
Years(revisiting it after several years). After
appreciating again Jeffers' direct and insightful
prose, I took up his ideas of what the poet is and
should be. Who would like to discuss such matter?
No need to limit it to this one work of course; poems
such as Self Criticism in February et al are relevant,
as are any other works. However, I would like to focus
the discussion on Jeffers' ideas of the poet. My selfishness
wants another as poet as powerful as Jeffers to emerge
but he holds such a unique position in American poetry,
at least in my experience. Let the storms of thought
wreak havoc!
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Re: Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years: Where is the Poet? Abby Sheppard 23:54:43 4/16/100