Quote:You're right about the possibility of CAS' publication in Jacket. Part of its reason-for-being being to showcase and promote Australian poetry in silent juxtaposition with non-Australian work.
*Chuckles* Point taken, but we both know that that wouldn't be the only reason why CAS, time-transported, would fail to find welcome there.
It's interesting that there's such a nationalist slant on poetic matters these days, by the way.
I saw the reference to your proposed study of poetic anti-Modernism. It's a worthwhile subject, though I hope you can find a more varied roster of poets than the one you've proposed. Have a look at F.L. Lucas, for instance. He was an interesting character: Poet, novelist, critic, and Cambridge don. He also wrote
a wonderful contemporary demolition of Eliot's
Waste Land. Lucas's introduction to Beddoes's selected poems is superb, as well (a few inevitable quibbles aside).
Oh, and Walter de la Mare, too--he's such an obvious choice, I nearly forgot him! Although--surprise, surprise--his reputation has fallen faster and harder than the stock market in 2008, he had far more influence and a far better contemporary reputation than any of the American poets you cite (perhaps the Australians, too, but I can't speak to that), and he is, in my opinion, a far greater poet than any of the Americans, apart from CAS.
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