Anglophilia is a disease that American poets have struggled with since the days of Poe, but it doesn’t mean that Bunting or Raworth are not great poets with absolute relevancy regardless of where one lives.
“Henry James wanted to write a book in the shape of an hourglass. Flaubert wanted to write a novel about nothing. What I’ve learned is that the muses’ decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose — they will sing or not regardless.”
John Barth