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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset — earth of the mountains...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.It's a really really strange mix of the English romantics and Whitman and Melville and I don't think it always comes off, a lot of it is...
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I don't think that's what Pynchon's doing. He's doing a Looney Tunes thing. It's the narrator taking the piss and winking at the reader...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Dunno, I'm trying to figure out where Hart Crane fits into this. Voyages By Hart Crane II —And yet this great wink of eternity, Of...
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Why is it ridiculous to try and capture colloquial American voices the way Frost OHara Ginsberg DeLillonall Gaddis Bellow Miller Pynchon...
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Ive alwayz admired real gardens with imaginary toads in them
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.I know it's different, that's why I posted it. There was a self conscious struggle going on.
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.I didn't say she was! But i think that poem in particular is relevant to the discussion. The Americans of that time were looking for an...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.
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Pynchon's use of 'sez'.
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.I haven't read enough of wcw to have formed an opinion on it, bit i've liked some things i've read. Not the plums and the wheelbarrow...
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Wcw faux folksey voice is horrific too while we're at it Gee whiz i sure love plums
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Thats why i said im incoherent in my opinions about american poetry cos i like o hará for some reason but it is totally ridiculous
