Scepticisms; Notes on Contemporary Poetry
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: A.A. Knopf Subjects: Poetry American poetry English poetry Poetry, Modern Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It ha...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: A.A. Knopf Subjects: Poetry American poetry English poetry Poetry, Modern Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ill Poetry in America 1917 LIKE the poor, Mr. Braithwaite's "Anthology" is always with us: a year passes, another myriad or so of magazines falls from the press, and once more Mr. Braithwaite has scoured them all, and gives us the result in two hundred odd pages. Examine, for instance, the Anthology for 1916. What new thing can be said of it? It does not change. It is six pages shorter than the year before; it selects for special praise only fifteen, instead of thirty-five, books of verse, -- both of which abridgments are for the better. But whether through inability or unwillingness, Mr. Braithwaite seems no nearer learning that there can be little excuse for an anthology which does not select. Once more we have the clarion preface (a clarion uncertainly played) proclaiming that the present era of American poetry is to be compared with the Elizabethan and othergreat eras; a solemn catalogue of names held illustrious; and once more the verse itself follows on this with a harshly negative answer. Is there any use in merely abusing Mr. Braith- waite for the many inaccuracies and hasty superficialities in his preface -- for his cool assertion that Mr. Pound is the idol of those nimble acrobats who whirl and tumble through the pages of "Others"; that Poetry is Mr. Pound's organ of radicalism; that Mr. Kreymborg is the one poet produced by the "Others" group, or M...
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