Poetry
_The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a rece...
_The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a...
2. Part 2In nearly all poetry the sound and feel of the words, what is often called the _form_ of the poem in opposition to its _content_, get to work first, and the sense in which the w...
3. Part 3The central dominant change may be described as the _Neutralization of Nature_, the transference from the Magical View of the world to the scientific, a change so great that it...
4. Part 4From Mr. Hardy to Mr. De la Mare may seem a large transition, though readers of Mr. De la Mare’s later work will agree that there are interesting resemblances--in _Who’s That_ a...