Interesting discussion, which I have just surveyed for the first time. I find gray's proposed list risible. Adelade Crapsey? Lived up to her name. Plath? The yawps of an oven-bird.
Fine, measured comments from Alicia, and from the sometimes immoderate Tim.
I sympathize with Mike's desire to elevate Larkin, whose Collected is the most substantial body of poetry I have read since Wilbur's New and Collected. But I'm not a prolific reader. I fear that if I read as widely as gray, I might lose rather than gain perspective, as he evidently has.
A.S.
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