Irradiations; Sand and Spray
Irradiations; Sand and Spray
By John Gould Fletcher
27 Jan, 2020
FROM THE PREFACE.......The art of poetry as practised in English-speaking countries today is in a greatly backward state. Among the reading public, there are exactly three opinions generally held about it. The first, and by far the most popular, view
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FROM THE PREFACE.......The art of poetry as practised in English-speaking countries today is in a greatly backward state. Among the reading public, there are exactly three opinions generally held about it. The first, and by far the most popular, view is that all poets are fools and that poetry is absurd. The second is that poetry is an agreeable after-dinner entertainment and that a poet is great because he has written quotable lines. The last and worst is that which strives to press the poet into the service of some philosophical dogma, ism, or fad. Less