Just a footnote to the above.
I was just watching a documentary on the famous architect, David Libeskind, who is currently working on the WTC site.
One of the commentators was saying that it is Libeskind’s sense of history, of the past and of tradition, that gives his work such power. His is a modern style, but solidly grounded in tradition.
Many modern architects (he added) wanted a complete break with the past (as is general in the academy today) and this makes their works ephemeral, insubstantial and quickly dated.
The same principle, I would argue, applies to all the arts.
Especially to poetry.
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