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Howard Nemerov | history

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

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history Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov | history

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

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Howard Nemerov | funny

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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Howard Nemerov | freedom

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

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freedom Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov | freedom

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn’t give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

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Howard Nemerov | business

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

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