reading someone else's feedback

[rowens]

I'm going to say something that's unpopular. I guess there's a first time for everything. . . . I don't know what to say a lot of the time. People have different experiences from me, different intellectual experiences from me, different. . . . I do believe that biographical information is important to truly 'getting' something. I truly believe that literary research and criticism is important. I couldn't make heads or tails of Wallace Stevens a few years ago; and then I read his biography and a couple books of literary criticism about him. And now I can't stop reading him and loving him. What do you all think? And by 'all', I mean everybody.