Perloff's two traditions
 

Perloff (in The Poetics of Indeterminacy) notes two poetic traditions in the twentieth century:
 
"the Symbolist mode that Lowell inherited from Eliot and Baudelaire, and, beyond them, from the great Romantic poets"
 
and what she calls the "anti-Symbolist" mode ("of indeterminacy"), which draws on a line that goes from Rimbaud to Stein, Pound, and Williams by way of Cubist, Dada, and early Surrealist art, a line that also includes the great French/English verbal compositions of Beckett"
 
she cheekily calls this "the French connection"

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