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"By insisting that the poet's actual life can be a valid subject
for poetry, that personality is just as important as craft, Berryman was voicing
the common feelings of his generation.
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as he grew more convinced of his artistic path,
his condemnation of Eliotic impersonality grew more strident.
In a 1957 essay, Eliot's theory has been demoted from 'perverse and valuable'
to 'amusing,' and by 1960 it has become 'intolerable.' In 1962 Berryman
turned to sarcasm:
'One thing critics not themselves writers of poetry occasionally forget is that poetry
is composed by actually human beings,
and tracts of it are very closely about them'."
[p. 120 of The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch]. |
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