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Article: Can criticism matter?(Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture)(Book Review)
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- May 1, 2005
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Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture, by Dana Gioia. Graywolf Press. $16.00.
In 1922 T.S. Eliot sent the Dial magazine a "London Letter" in which he dismissed with certain contempt Louis Untermeyer's anthology Modern American Poets, drubbing it as a timid and conventional collection of popular writers that, coincidentally, did not include him. And though the book contained poems by Pound, Dickinson, Conrad Aiken, H.D., and John Gould Fletcher (whom Eliot approved), it also featured the work of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Edward Arlington Robinson, and the commonplace Edgar Lee Masters. As for the poems representing ...