Talk:English poetry
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I have attempted to turn the article into continuous prose and add as many poets as I could reasonably fit in. It's still far from perfect and needs a lot more. However, it's over 5,000 words now and I'm done. Bmills 13:55, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
This article does not follow the guidelines regarding capitalization as written in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings). I'd edit it, but I'm not sure which words (for example "Renaissance" or phrases like "Late Middle Ages" might be naturally capitalized). Maybe someone familiar with this could change the section headings to the Wkipedia standard (first word capitalized, and then no other unnecessary capitalization). Bevo 05:14, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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What is the evidence for this closing sentence: "As of 2004, it appears that a still thriving literature is faced with an ever-decreasing audience." I manage a thriving, non-commercial, unpromoted English-language poetry anthology (www.daypoems.net) that serves 2,500-3,000 distinct hosts daily, and that is one of thousands of poetry venues on the World Wide Web. To me it suggests that a lot of people are still reading poetry, just not in books from major publishers. It also suggests that we have no idea whether the audience for poetry is declining--there are no readership figures available.
Mind you, I'm not sure enough of my ground to do an edit on a well-done major article like this one, but I do think the issue should be thought about and an edit considered by the principal contributors. TimBovee 21 Feb 2004