Thesis: that Pynchon is not a " political" writer at all.

[ish mailian]

This poem, slight and snug, says more, perhaps, on the same topics than the
essay.


http://awp.diaart.org/poetry/87_88/heaney3.html


On Saturday, December 26, 2015, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> A lot in there, but not much I can connect with P. Maybe the end, when
> Heaney is brought in, though I can't quit figure out how Seamus Heaney's
> statements, or poetry, biography, history, politics have all that much to
> do with either Auden or Orwell.  Long essay. I might re-read it. Poor
> Auden, if he really did think of necessary murder or that his audience
> might think murder necessary and find affirmation in his poetry. Yeats, to
> me, is a finer poet, even with his ugly politics and last romantic elitism
> ...
>
> On Saturday, December 26, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> If this guy and Auden are right. And Orwell, a fave of our author.
>>
>> It's all been mistaken readings. If claimed.
>>
>> >
>> >
>> http://bostonreview.net/poetry/robert-huddleston-wh-auden-struggle-politics?utm_content=24965190&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>
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