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Lapore is wrong about meaning in Poetry

By Matthew Baldwin on August 2, 2011

Ernie Lapore, “Poetry, Medium, and Message.” The Stone. New York Times Online. 7.31.2011. Rutgers philosopher Ernie Lepore writes about poetry in yesterday’s installment of “The Stone,” a philosophy “blog” on the New York Times. Something about the article rankled me and inspired this cranky response. Lapore says the New Critics locate meaning, and the resistance [...]

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