Inbred Royals And Academic Poetry?
a: Academic poetry ~
b: Royal offspring
What: "The overwhelming (really underwhelming) majority of contemporary poetry is mincing, deliberately esoteric, and ultimately bloodless-versification by poetasters whose only life experience has transpired within well-tenured campus walls. The poetry of those ensconced in academia is like the offspring of royal families that have intermarried for centuries. "....the rest is in the link.....
Useful?
Writer: Patrick Walsh
LCC: L
Where:
Date: Dec 31 2010 6:27 AM
# 746 Critique Analogy