In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, michell <pre- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >>on the Stock Exchange are reviled because none of that money comes the >>poets' way. Poets will forgive everything except being ignored; > >I think poets do not so much dislike being ignored, except that they want to >perfect communication. People think poetry is fine and many people like it, >but then many people like to watch television, too. And to get a bit off >topic, Marshall Mcluhan noted that poets (artists) were made popular by the >majority in order to diminutize them, to lessen the effect of communication >in the present, whereas people prefer to live in "the rear-view mirror". >I don't think poets are so needy as to wish to not be ignored.
Not in the Romantic starving-in=the-garret sense (that really belongs to the eighteenth-century gap between patronage and commerce, when the great no longer paid for panegyrics and the book-trade did not yet afford an income). The need is psychological; even a bad review is better than none. Leofranc Holford-Strevens *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
