Poetry versus
Criticism—Who is a Poet?
ON LITERATURE — by G.L. Horton
KQK... writes: I guess somewhere you have to work in the
idea that a poet is someone who first of all knows what good poetry
is, and then tries to create his/her own.
I think this is heading down the wrong path. It seems to me
that critical and creative skills only rarely coexist in the
same person. Some admired poets are notoriously bad critics
of their own and others' poems. Some admired critics try all
their lives to write good poems and fail, even though they are
wonderfully eloquent on why good poems written by others are
worthy of admiration and know all there is to know about the
techniques good poets use. (06/13/03)
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