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Article #1374cumming's poetry
From: Nigel Ling
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:44
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:44
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In article <1993Jan28.060001.15808@nuscc.nus.sg> tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston) writes: >behrens@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eric Behrens) writes: >: Maybe it could do e e cummings, but a novel... :Q) >1) e e cummings did write a novel (The Enormous Room), > based on his prisoner of war experiences. >2) he was one of the most `poetic' of poets, > using the lateral, more analogue than digital, > possibilities of English to the limit. Eh? What the hell is the analogue as opposed to digital possibilities of English?? Well, I'm no critic of poetry and haven't seen a great deal of Cumming's work but he does seem to do an aw ful l o t ofthis . &Nigel\
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Newsgroups: misc.writing Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!inmos!fulcrum!bham!warwick!doc.ic.ac.uk!syma!mapd1 From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling) Subject: cumming's poetry Message-ID: <1993Jan28.124421.19779@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Organization: University of Sussex References: <74AXBPTT@cc.swarthmore.edu> <1993Jan28.060001.15808@nuscc.nus.sg> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:44:21 GMT Lines: 28