Re: On My Disgusting Attitude (Was Good Will Hunting Before I Was So
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 10:19:49 -0800
Brian Hall wrote:
> If you've taken many literature
> courses you would realize where the unfortunately passed-on Mr. Ginsberg
> stands in relation to other poets. He wasn't an exceptional poet,
> people are concerned more with what he had to say. THat's why we didn't
> mind when he scribbled so much nonsense down along with the good stuff.
He was the 20th century's most necessary poet and as important as Whitman,
yet his poetry was just one of the ways in which he was important.