hammer28 Sep 2004

If I made a mistake it was with the original posting. 'The best poets are the best critics' should have read 'the best poets must also be fine critics'. Sets are now irrelevant because it is entirely possible that there are simultaneously (good critics that can not write poetry) and (no good poets that are not good critics).

Kenneth Tynan said a critic (what he meant was a critic that was not a good poet) was someone who new the map but could not drive the car. My argument is simple. A poet that does not know what makes could poetry can not possibly 'arrive' at good poetry. As an educated young man one would have thought you would be the first to agree. I am presuming you have no problem with the bit about stupid people don't matter.

The PS question, well it did have effectively two negatives (anything other than) and (is bowl's).