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Unread 07-06-2005, 01:02 AM
Janet Kenny Janet Kenny is offline
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While agreeing that many of the finest poets do have an immediately recognisable voice I think another type of poet has the right different voice for the poem, rather than a voice we recognise first as the voice of the poet.

Familiarity with a poet will enable us to recognise a personal voice as well but it is not inevitably the first virtue.

After all, William McGonagall had a recognisable voice.
William McGonagall

Janet

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