12-07-2011, 07:50 PM
(12-07-2011, 07:32 PM)grannyjill Wrote: ...I don't know how all of their work was received at point of first printing)That might make a whole new topic in its own right.
Some poets are heralded in their own lifetimes, some aren't recognised until much later. [OK, I don't actually know that, but I do know that sometimes happens with painters and I'm assuming it also happens to poets.]
Why is that? Obviously nothing objective has changed in the work. Only the way a majority (or elite vocal minority) happens to perceive it.
And what does that mean? Were they great or were they not or is the whole concept of greatness simply a transitory and abstract concept?
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."