A Neat Summation of All That Is Wrong With Criticism of the BBC's Poetry Season

From a review by Diggory Dunn:

The selection of material has been woefully predictable. Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Milton, established canonical names that have instilled fear and loathing into the hearts of school-children for decades. Where are the exciting, satirical and thoroughly naughty poets such as Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge and Yeats? Drug addicts, revolutionaries, sexually obsessed and on occasion incestuous, they produced equally inflammatory poetry and might incite something more than an empty stare and a dribble from an audience.

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Comments

[Sean Bonney]

bah. Miilton was a regicide. thats much better than being a drug addict.

[Bill Drennan]

& Blake said "Every Body hates a King". I was just looking at an old musty copy of Blake's Milton earlier. It once belonged to a more contemporary poet ...