tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post8421013208511874915..comments2024-03-18T21:13:12.753-04:00Comments on Jacob Russell's Barking Dog: Ammiel Alcalay: Neither Wit Nor GoldJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-17840692011777241732011-09-17T22:32:28.427-04:002011-09-17T22:32:28.427-04:00Litlove,
I've not read Alvarez. I'll look...Litlove, <br />I've not read Alvarez. I'll look him up. Of old school critics... I hold Frye in high regard, his Anatomy of Criticism, and his superb work on Blake, Fearful Symmetry, before 'serious' critics took Blake seriously. And for poetry, the early work of Bloom was damn good. His book on Yeats is wonderful.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-42732184420339037082011-09-17T10:02:49.522-04:002011-09-17T10:02:49.522-04:00Have you ever read Al Alvarez? I've come acros...Have you ever read Al Alvarez? I've come across him just this year although he's an old school critic really, but I love the way he writes about poetry. I can't quite explain how he does it, but it's natural, simply woven into the fabric of the ongoing sentence, offhand, almost, but piercingly insightful. Poetry doesn't feel a breed apart when he talks about it, but just an litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-76528970227041499342011-09-14T13:49:05.952-04:002011-09-14T13:49:05.952-04:00Hey, thanks for the shout-out Jacob! You are right...Hey, thanks for the shout-out Jacob! You are right, the term poetry used to have a less "physical" definition. And Wordsworth said "there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition." That is, poetry is not poetry b/c of its external features (e.g., white space).Kim Gek Lin Shorthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08359879132505691238noreply@blogger.com