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The Progress of Poetry: England
van Doren, Mark | June 22, 1921 issue

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A good many Americans assume that contemporary English poetry is represented best, or even altogether, by the four volumes of "Georgian Poetry" which have appeared in London since November 1912. Those volumes have youth, beauty and importance, but their covers in close selections from less than a fourth of the living poets who are original and strong. While they have performed a remarkable service in their decade by advertising poetry in general and by drawing into their focus many diverse talents, they have achieved after all only a moderate diversity and they have managed to miss a large number of the geniuses, who of course are not being drawn anywhere.

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POETRY; GEORGIAN poetry; GEORGIAN literature; POETS; LITERATURE; UNITED States
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