tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post2049144934957736339..comments2024-01-26T14:21:13.102-05:00Comments on HG Poetics: Poetry, religion, humanismHenry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-81640811906512624712010-02-23T12:10:37.040-05:002010-02-23T12:10:37.040-05:00I'm with you there, Jon.
I feel like I'...I'm with you there, Jon. <br /><br />I feel like I've got both an Eliot & an Emerson inside, perpetually arguing with each other. A big part of my ponderous pondering has to do with reconciling Emerson's sense of human "originality" (the creative power of that ol' American "self") with Eliot's sense of an underlying "sacred history" of life & the world.<br /><br />But that's just me...Henry Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-2069105587123792322010-02-23T12:03:28.618-05:002010-02-23T12:03:28.618-05:00I was rereading Emerson's essay The Poet by th...I was rereading Emerson's essay The Poet by the fire this weekend and thinking that if a creative writing teacher assigned this text to her students and said, 'now go out and see if you're a poet, according to Emerson' or something like that, that the teacher would be considered insane and incompetent. And how i love this essay! and how it says everything I believe about poetry. To strive for anything less (because who can achieve it?) is to degrade poetry to something ordinary, if not contemptable.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02779349971367825564noreply@blogger.com