[lbo-talk] Q for English majors/teachers

[Gar Lipow]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:18 PM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Interesting. Every once in a while, I do read a short story in the New Yorker that I like.
>
> About the MFA programs, I know nothing. I would suspect that a literature defined in terms of what twenty year olds can understand and produce will not amount to much.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point but didn't Keats die at 26 or
so? Without arguing about what is and is not great literature, wasn't
much of various canons, including attempts at left-wing canons written
by very young people?

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