From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6184 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, March 17 2021 Volume 14 : Number 6184 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Add this to your water ASAP ["Unusual Secret" Subject: Add this to your water ASAP Add this to your water ASAP http://carboplus.us/FqIQDnOx9xtQvTs441rSLBrusY-JWOYMZupk6wFLa7ACTuzi http://carboplus.us/pCf2rUY8Bq2xIIXUzkMYAuhGB6cRIv7-JZ1xVx1Eq9dnsAaA tical opinion of the poem began to shift in the middle of the 20th century. In 1980, Whitman's biographer Justin Kaplan called the poem "thoroughly conventional". The literary critic F. O. Matthiessen criticized the poem, writing in 1941 that its early popularity was an "ample and ironic comment" on how Whitman's more authentic poetry could not reach a wide audience. Michael C. Cohen, a literature professor, said Matthiessen's writing exemplified 20th century opinion on the poem. In the 1997 book A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman, scholar Gay Wilson Allen concluded that the poem's symbols were "trite", the rhythm "artificial", and the rhymes "erratic". Negative perspectives on the poem continued into the 21st century. In 2000, Helen Vendler wrote that the poem's insincerity resulted in the loss of what made him unique, silencing "his own idiosyncratic voice". She concluded that the poem was decidedly populist. Four years later, Epstein wrote that he struggled to believe that the same writer wrote both "Lilacs" and "O Captain! My Captain!". Poet Robert Pinsky told the New York Times News Service in 2009 that he considered the poem "not very good", and a year later another poet, C. K. Williams, concluded that the poem was a "truly awful piece of near doggerel triteness" that deserved derisive criticism. Meanwhile, the 2004 Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature entry on Whitman suggests that critiq ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6184 **********************************************