Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
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Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
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