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Originally Posted by Wintaka
If there is any hint that judges will choose based on style rather than merit, get better judges.
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We must be using "style" differently, Wintaka. I don't see how a poem can have any merit that doesn't largely derive from the poet's style.
I'm drawn to Wallace Stevens's poems because of his style. To Larkin's because of his. Given their collected works and a bunch of other stuff I like less, and with two prizes to award, I'd choose two poems by the same poet. (Which one is irrelevant here.) That result would please me, but no more than the result of having to choose poems by more than one--and the second result, I think, would better reflect the merits of the batch from which I could choose.
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