Talk:Descriptive poetry

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This stinketh mightily! The critical distinction is muddleheaded and belongs with the year 1911. The attempted distinction is between topographic poetry (a minor form) and things like Cowley's The Task, I suppose. However, it's so thoroughly coterie that it never had much of a lasted effect, at least not in terms of engendering other poetry. The English, for example, didn't really buy it. I'm not sure that it had very long shadows in France, either. However, the name of this article, the name of the distinction, is a repetition of the unrefined parlance of 17th c. critics translating 17th c. French neoclassicists. Utgard Loki 13:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)