Call me crazy but I think the United States' particular history stunts it in poetry. It has no tradition of monarchy and aristocracy and it's a thoroughly low-church Protestant nation; it hates Catholics, the Orthodox are nowhere in sight, and even the Anglicans never truly fit in here. Poetry is a high art, especially the great epic modes. America has never been a "high" nation, not in its soul.
Even guys like Milton, over in Europe, never truly escape the long shadow of Europe's history of the nobility and the Church.
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I was going to post something along this line. What are the English a race of, if they are not a race of philosophers? Isn't the most obvious answer that they are a race of poets? What does English do best, if not poetry? What has England produced the most great figures of, if not poets?
Their cousins the Scottish, the Welsh, and the Irish are poets, too. The British Isles are a feverish den of poetry, a hub of meter and rhyme.
I was going to post something along this line. What are the English a race of, if they are not a race of philosophers? Isn't the most obvious answer that they are a race of poets? What does English do best, if not poetry? What has England produced the most great figures of, if not poets?
Their cousins the Scottish, the Welsh, and the Irish are poets, too. The British Isles are a feverish den of poetry, a hub of meter and rhyme.