Of lapdogs & loners: American poetry today.(Lengthened shadows: VIII)

New Criterion | April 1, 2004| | Copyright

When I was eight years old, and living with my grandmother near Miami, I received a copy of Walter Scott's book-length poem Marmion for my birthday. Perhaps my grandmother, English-born and raised in Victorian times, remembered the custom she and her sisters had of reading poetry aloud on winter evenings in those distant days when poetry was written to give pleasure; perhaps she even hoped that the book would persuade me to introduce my scruffy pals to the joys of verse. Not likely: this wasn't a gift calculated to thrill a boy already addicted to the pleasures of snake- and ...

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