05-27-2012, 09:37 AM
No sort; all sorts. But the question is peculiar. I might like a particular vase, for its shape, its glazes, who knows? Do I like vases in general, or of that maker? No reason why I should. And down the ages with verse, and other art-forms, it has often been so, that one or two works make the poet's or artist's name, and rightly so. Critics may want to puff up some other dire turgid pieces, as they are obsessed with ''middle-class, middle-brow'', and must earn their keep. What chance of keeping their jobs if the taste of Joe Public is good?
I like anything which has something --usually creativity really-- and it doesn't matter whether it is tear-jerking Victorian parlour poetry (''Rattle his bones over the stones/He's only a pauper whom no-body owns''), old Chaucer, who I fancy I see fussing about in Smithfield, Herrick, Blake, a good South London man, a lot of Shakespeare, ( I see him knocking around the Globe, too, getting pissed with Ben Jonson and the gang) many of the Romantics, Tennyson, in smallish doses, then the Hardys, Brookes and so many: the well-known WW1 poets, Chesterton, Belloc, even a bit of Eliot recently. So many, too many. But in every case I can think of, they wrote a few reams of balderdash as well.
There would be some American chappies......but as to Aussie, I have only become acquainted with them courtesy of The Schoolmarm.....
I like anything which has something --usually creativity really-- and it doesn't matter whether it is tear-jerking Victorian parlour poetry (''Rattle his bones over the stones/He's only a pauper whom no-body owns''), old Chaucer, who I fancy I see fussing about in Smithfield, Herrick, Blake, a good South London man, a lot of Shakespeare, ( I see him knocking around the Globe, too, getting pissed with Ben Jonson and the gang) many of the Romantics, Tennyson, in smallish doses, then the Hardys, Brookes and so many: the well-known WW1 poets, Chesterton, Belloc, even a bit of Eliot recently. So many, too many. But in every case I can think of, they wrote a few reams of balderdash as well.
There would be some American chappies......but as to Aussie, I have only become acquainted with them courtesy of The Schoolmarm.....