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think ihis ihe <strong>en</strong>ly siricí and useful meaning fer ihe werd). 1 argued thai among<br />

ihe pressures which a poet must respond te, if he is empleying a diction, are<br />

pressures of class-usage and of speech-usage, lo Ihe ex<strong>en</strong>í thai aH poems are<br />

writt<strong>en</strong> lo be spek<strong>en</strong>, unless writt<strong>en</strong> te be sung. Every <strong>en</strong>e knews thai British<br />

society is class-ridd<strong>en</strong>, and thai in Britain ihe badge of c>ass is speech; and<br />

thai in American seciety ibis is nel so, er not te the same degree. Ami so <strong>en</strong>e<br />

might find reas<strong>en</strong>s why there may be nuances of peetic diction te which ihe<br />

Englishman is s<strong>en</strong>sitive because of his social conditioning, in a way no<br />

American is. There is nething chauvinistic about such speculation. 1.5. Eliot in<br />

<strong>en</strong>e of bis tasi essays decided thai we were c<strong>en</strong>fr<strong>en</strong>ted with <strong>en</strong> unpreced<strong>en</strong>ted<br />

ph<strong>en</strong>om<strong>en</strong><strong>en</strong>: two distincí lileralures, British and American, inside <strong>en</strong>e<br />

language. It this ¡5 50 (and teaving asido the Ireubleseme actualities or<br />

probabilities of Anglo-Welsh, Anglo-Scottish, New Zealand literatura,<br />

Trinídadian and se <strong>en</strong>), it cannel be insular chauvinism te applaud ihe<br />

emerg<strong>en</strong>ce of emphases which do in fact distinguish <strong>en</strong>e of iba literaturas in<br />

Eng)ish froni ihe olber. It weuld be delighful it a Iiving affinity wuth masteus of<br />

presajo dicli<strong>en</strong> such es cowper and crabbe, bearing in mmd of ceurse iba<br />

Englishness of iheir subject-maiter, were ter a time lo distinguish iba British<br />

idiom in verse trem the American, and British laste frem American tasto.<br />

Unfoutunate>y, hewever, ihose of iis who sorne years ego were castigating<br />

British laste ter its irisularity hayo lately gel mere than vio bargained ter, and<br />

we cee wuth dismay young British writers slavishly imitating American styles of<br />

writing which haya maaning ami validity <strong>en</strong>ly in ralati<strong>en</strong> te specifically<br />

American predicam<strong>en</strong>is. (FaO, A Postscript, 1996:197-202).<br />

A la luz de la afirmación de Davie, podemos calificar de nacionalista el<br />

programa poético de Pie Movem<strong>en</strong>t En palabras de EJ. Hobsbawm [1992:<br />

66]<br />

la id<strong>en</strong>tificación mística de la nacionalidad con una especie de idea platónica<br />

de la l<strong>en</strong>gua, que existe detrás y por <strong>en</strong>cima de todas sus versiones variantes<br />

e imperfectas, es mucho más caracteristica de la construcción ideológica de<br />

los intelectuales nacionalistas, ... que de las masas que utilizan el idioma. Es<br />

un concepto literario y no un concepto exist<strong>en</strong>cial.<br />

A la luz de esta afirmación podemos considerar a Davie un intelectual<br />

nacionalista cuya idea platónica se <strong>en</strong>carna históricam<strong>en</strong>te <strong>en</strong> la literatura y<br />

sociedad del augústeo siglo XVIII. Esta fijación dieciochesca responde no sólo<br />

a una motivación individual, que examinaremos más adelante, sino también a<br />

razones de índole colectiva.<br />

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