Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-95.149.5.49-20160729002848/@comment-26018514-20160927045940

Nikoli the rebel wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: I have literally never heard of The Wasteland, and i got an A+ in my english class the year we were studying influential poets. Its too complicated and long to be covered in high school. That doesn't mean it shouldn't get an "honorable mention".... if it's his undisputed best work it seems like it should at least be listed as such even if the reader cannot be expected to read the work itself.

Additionally, if the concepts of the poem are great enough to be rated as such a great poem, it likely covers concepts that others who come up with them think to use them in their own works because they think they are great... I'm not sold on your insistence correlation=causation