"Henry Millar" Schmillar

I am sorry here, and this is not me being colonialist, but "Henry Millar" is not that great. It saddens me to say something derogatory about someone so illustrious and who is adored (often) by Americans but he had very little to offer in terms of insight and imagination. I know that those west of the pond grow upset with me when I say such things and they need not for there are now many great American authors. Americans have always wished for a Tennyson, and offer us a terribly inferior Lonfellow. Americans suggest Dylan Thomas can be compared with Walt Whitman.

These things are silly in my opinion. America, a new land on the other side of the world would always be different from the various homelands of those that settled there, becoming a conglomeration of them all.

Sure it has taken a few hundred years but often American authors surprise and entertain us. American poets reach new heights. American musicians produce great new music. I think that America should not be looking back and trying to reproduce the works of Britain or Europe, they should be trying to lead the way with new and exiting books, cool music and different philosophies and science. I think that America has to remember what the founding fathers sailed there to create.

A new and original land diffent from those they had left.