Congratulations on such a prodigious feat of memory! I’m really looking forward to reading your Substack, Robert. It seems to me that just as American C20 novelists wanted to write The Great American Novel, so a handful of C20 American poets wanted to write The Great American Poem - so Ezra Pound and The Cantos, WCW and Paterson, Robert Lowell and those ‘fourteen liners’ collected in Notebook, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin, AR Ammons and Tape For The Turning Of The Year. Nor is this field entirely populated by men: Anne Stevenson’s Correspondences is also a worthy contender for ‘The Great American Poem’. I think some of these poets did truly achieve a peculiarly American as opposed to European kind of poetic greatness - WCW, Berryman, and AR Ammons to be specific. However, I think the others mentioned here - even though their work undoubtedly is great - do not quite achieve greatness ‘in the American grain’. Your reflections on ‘Greatness’ in this American context would be be very welcome, Robert.