Rexroth on Poetry and Society

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Now online at the Kenneth Rexroth Archive:

"TWO TALKS ON POETRY AND SOCIETY"
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/poetry-society.htm

"The poet, by the very nature of his art, has always been an enemy of
society, that is, of the privileged and the powerful. He has sometimes been
an ally and spokesman of the unprivileged and the weak, where such groups
were articulate and organized, otherwise he has waged an individual and
unaided war...."

"THE POET AS TRANSLATOR"
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/poetry-translation.htm

Rexroth compares and contrasts various translations of Homer, Sappho,
Euripides, Catullus, Li Po, etc.



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