http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/09/quick-review-01/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:27:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/09/quick-review-01/#comment-1088 Vivek Narayanan Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:36:33 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=410#comment-1088 Christian-- I am similarly uncomfortable, but on the other hand, a question. Here is Nietsche in 1892: I have grown weary of the poets, the old and the new: they all seem to me superficial and shallow seas.      They have not thought deeply enough: therefore their feeling – has not plumbed the depths.      A little voluptuousness and a little tedium: that is all their best ideas have ever amounted to.      All their harp-jangling is to me so much coughing and puffing of phantoms; what have they ever known of the ardour of tones!      They are not clean enough for me, either: they all disturb their waters so that they may seem deep! Is this a similar complaint? Is this merely a variant of the age old philosopher's complaint about poets? Are we just looking at the old duel between poetry and philosophy? Laura Riding. Laura Riding, indeed. Christian–
I am similarly uncomfortable, but on the other hand, a question. Here is Nietsche in 1892:
I have grown weary of the poets, the old and the new:
they all seem to me superficial and shallow seas.
     They have not thought deeply enough: therefore
their feeling – has not plumbed the depths.
     A little voluptuousness and a little tedium: that is
all their best ideas have ever amounted to.
     All their harp-jangling is to me so much
coughing and puffing of phantoms; what have they ever
known of the ardour of tones!
     They are not clean enough for me, either: they all
disturb their waters so that they may seem deep!
Is this a similar complaint? Is this merely a variant of the age old philosopher’s complaint about poets? Are we just looking at the old duel between poetry and philosophy?
Laura Riding. Laura Riding, indeed.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/09/quick-review-01/#comment-1087 Steve Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:30:13 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=410#comment-1087 I suggest a close comparison with the <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0972888020" rel="nofollow">work</a> of Katie Degentesh... I suggest a close comparison with the work of Katie Degentesh…

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