Re: On My Disgusting Attitude (Was Good Will Hunting Before I Was So
Molly Hall (pp00918@ppp.kcc.edu)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 13:31:48 -0400
Malcolm Lawrence wrote:
>
> 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.
I love the man, too folks. What people always have to say is that he
was important for other reasons. No, he CERTAINLY was not the most
important poet of our era, and no he does not stand toe to toe with
those great poets Mr. Hockman mentioned. THat's simply not true. It's
cool to like GInsberg for sure, because what he had to say was beautiful
and important. Nevertheless, even Howl was an extremely messy poem with
plenty of bad points to its good. I'm afraid Mr. Ginsberg will simply
not be remembered in the way so many people want to think. Let's get
some perspective on this guy, please.