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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Subject: cumming's poetry
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.124421.19779@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
- References: <74AXBPTT@cc.swarthmore.edu> <1993Jan28.060001.15808@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:44:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.060001.15808@nuscc.nus.sg> tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston) writes:
- >behrens@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eric Behrens) writes:
- >: Maybe it could do e e cummings, but a novel... :Q)
- >1) e e cummings did write a novel (The Enormous Room),
- > based on his prisoner of war experiences.
- >2) he was one of the most `poetic' of poets,
- > using the lateral, more analogue than digital,
- > possibilities of English to the limit.
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- Eh? What the hell is the analogue as opposed to digital possibilities
- of English??
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- Well, I'm no critic of poetry and haven't seen a great deal of
- Cumming's work but he does seem
- to do
- an
- aw
- ful
- l
- o
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- ofthis
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- &Nigel\
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