Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Great Regulars: This is, in [Stephen] Fry's words,

the general reader's sense that "poetry lies in inaccessible marshland: no pathways, no signposts, just the skeletons of long-dead poets poking through the bog and the unedifying sight of living ones floundering about in apparent confusion and mutual enmity. Behind it all, the dread memory of classrooms swollen into resentful silence while the English teacher invites us to 'respond' to a poem."

from David Orr: The New York Times: School of Verse

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