I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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