I find odes to the Confederate dead (such at that written by Allen Tate) more dangerous even than Confederate statues.
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Tate’s Dangerous Ode to the Confederacy
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Saving Poetry from English Teachers
Poetry used to play a much larger role in our culture than it does today. That, at any rate, is the opinion of literary scholar Robert Scholes in his wonderfully provocative The Crafty Reader (Yale, 2001). Scholes’ book is provocative in part because of where he puts the blame: “I would like to suggest that […]
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