Modern-ish Poets: Thomas Hardy

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Could we have a podcast debating why LRB doesn't publish anything but conservative, unimaginative styles of writing? or even mention any unless the author is dead?

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I have noticed that all of the poets covered in these series of shorts, the close readings series are in the British tradition, most notably William Carlos Williams is left out, someone decidedly in the American tradition, at the time that he was riding really the only American poet. His earliest poetry definitely hearkened to classic literature totally skipped everything else up to that point and went right into the American idiom and you have left him out. No doubt more influential than any of the other poets included here on American Poetry after him