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And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

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Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

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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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But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

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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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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 30th, 1888

Died: July 3rd, 1974

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