Are There Any Valid Criticisms? (aka Kalessin's Rant)

[Bêthberry]

My dear Fordim,

They are not imposed on us from without, but spring up from within ourselves, all of us, trapping us all in the same prisonhouse of consumerist, ideological representation.

Aren't you getting your Althusser mixed up with your Fredric Jameson, (The Prison-House of Language ?

These Marxists do tend to cross-pollinate.

It is not only women artists whose work has been neglected by time and history. Throughout the ninetheenth century, Milton was regarded as the quintessential seventeenth century poet--the protestant rebel finding a chord of sympathy with the romantics and eclipsing more traditional poets such as Marvell, Herbert and Donne. It took the voice of a T. S. Eliot to bring back to the forefront of critical acclaim John Donne.

Strangely now--or perhaps not--the memorials for both Blake and Donne lie in St. Paul's.