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Article: Donald hall.(Interview)
- Article from:
- The American Poetry Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Interview by David McDonald
DAVID MCDONALD: Early in your career, you conducted a number of interviews with famous poets -- T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore come to mind. What did you learn from these interviews? Do any of them, in particular, stand out? Interviews have become such a popular literary genre, are they losing their value or utility?
DONALD HALL: Interviews got started with The Paris Review (There are a few scattered earlier examples.) Sometimes they are a substitute for poets writing literary criticism. The generation before us seemed to be as proud of its critical essays as it did of its poems. We did not want to be like that. ...