The Advance Of English Poetry In The Twentieth Century
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781419151262
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Although English poetry of the twentieth century seems inferior to the poetry of the Victorian epoch, for in England there is no one equal to Tennyson or Browning, and in America no one equal to Poe, Emerson, or Whitman, still it may fairly be said that we can discern an advance in English poetry not wholly to be measured either by the calendar and the clock, or by sheer beauty of expression.