still stuck in 1910...Refined phrasing

[Mark Kohut]

Not so much poetry that rhymed but rythmic, metrically standard poetry....
"the music"???


--- On Fri, 7/11/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: still stuck in 1910...
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 8:18 PM
> "when the music stopped"...as we remember.
> 
> I have learned two more 1910 details. William James,
> leading philosopher of chance died...(but that can't be
> it)
> 
> But this: "The "point de repere", usually
> and conveniently taken, as the starting-point of modern
> poetry, is the group denominated 'imagist' in
> London about 1910"---T. S. Eliot, American Literature
> and the American Language, 1953. 
> 
> Q:the music of poetry that rhymed stopped.....for the
> poetry of images that did not?????