Another intriguing question. Let me hazard a tongue-in-cheek guess: As the "poetry wars" need every able-bodied man and women ready to sacrifice themselves and their art to whatever noble ideals are currently “in the air” so to speak, I would say the answer depends on just how shell(ey)-shocked “they” were. Watch out for the flak, my friend!
Was that Shelley or just the "shell of him" they found? It matters a great deal to contemporary poetry...
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ReplyDeleteAnother intriguing question. Let me hazard a tongue-in-cheek guess: As the "poetry wars" need every able-bodied man and women ready to sacrifice themselves and their art to whatever noble ideals are currently “in the air” so to speak, I would say the answer depends on just how shell(ey)-shocked “they” were. Watch out for the flak, my friend!
There's a curious reverse-Orphic double-take twist in "limb to limb", indeed a bit ominous... "in context" like they say.
ReplyDeleteYour pithy remark nailed this one head-on, o distant son of Pythia.
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