Sorry but I have always found Kenyon to be vastly overrated--and that quotation is no exception. So much for satires, histories, parodies, comedies, etc etc etc--she essentially limits poets to lyrical impulses. We're all thuppothed to be tho thentitive, so full of "deep" and "profound" "feelings." Unfortunately, this often translates to the "poetry as diary entries" so often found on internet workshop sites.
Not that I'm cynical or anything.
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