Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Great Regulars: Sixty years after

Edmund Wilson told us that verse was dying, Joseph Epstein in Commentary revealed that it was murdered. Of course, Epstein's golden age—Stevens, Frost, Williams--is Wilson's era of "demoralized weariness." Everything changes and everything stays the same.

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Death to the death of poetry --Donald Hall

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