Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Great Regulars: Poetry, our national art, is, of course,

dead for the common reader. I shall say again, as I have shouted repeatedly into deaf ears for three decades, that John Ashbery is the greatest living poet in English. But now I shall add a contender – Geoffrey Hill.

from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Twilight of the greats?

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