“Here then we have a sketch of what it was to be a great poet in 1909: a man who expressed a sound philosophy in verse. And a sound philosophy was, in the reigning literary circles of the time, a philosophy of irrational conservatism. The poet is ‘a man of the world’, ‘a normal and healthy man in close contact with realities’, with ‘a practical attitude of mind and a closeness to common life’. He is a good chap, and certainly not an artist, for the word artist bore ‘associations with foreigners and long-haired aesthetes’, and was out of favor.” (C.K. Stead, The New Poetic)
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“Here then we have a sketch of what it was to be a great poet in 1909: a man who expressed a sound philosophy in verse. And a sound philosophy was, in the reigning literary circles of the time, a philosophy of irrational conservatism. The poet is ‘a man of the world’, ‘a normal and healthy man in close contact with realities’, with ‘a practical attitude of mind and a closeness to common life’. He is a good chap, and certainly not an artist, for the word artist bore ‘associations with foreigners and long-haired aesthetes’, and was out of favor.” (C.K. Stead, The New Poetic) Comments are closed.
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