News at Eleven: Poetry's critics charge

that "it should be less gloomy, more genial, less jagged and modern, more charming, something you can hum along with or chuckle at," he said. Nostalgia for the "good old days when poetry was sung or chanted to people who were happily chewing slices of venison and drinking mead or sarsaparilla" is nothing new, said [Robert] Pinsky.

from UC Berkeley News: Poetry's 'inherited and inexhaustible mystery'

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