From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:51:49 EST
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Friends:

A modest inquiry midst major matters:  What is The Explicator, and what is its
history?

FF recommended a couple of weeks ago that some of us might be interested in
"Electric Library" (www.elibrary.com), a research site available from our
PC's.  Early on I discovered there a publication titled The Explicator, which
appeared to be a periodical.  (It turned up whenever I searched particular
poems, giving detailed commentary; a student's dream, if one accepts single
interpretations.)  And, while reading Lubbers' _Emily Dickinson:  The Critical
Revolution_  I found reference to The Explicator, appearing to be associated
with the New Criticism.  (Don't be fooled by my use of terms.  I have only
vague ideas of what New Criticism was and/or is.)

I'm curious, nothing more.  Thank you.

Louis Forsdale