“And it seems to me, further, that what we have in our minds when we…” — John Drinkwater

“And it seems to me, further, that what we have in our minds when we speak of lyric is precisely this same quality; that lyric and the expression of pure poetic energy unrelated to other energies are the same thing.”

Identifying lyric with poetry in its most concentrated form · Essay, The Lyric, What Is Lyric

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John Drinkwater

About John Drinkwater

1 June 1882–25 March 1937

John Drinkwater, born on 1 June 1882 and dead on 25 March 1937, was one of the most visible English men of letters of the years between the First World War and the rise of high modernism. Poet, playwright, actor, theatre manager, critic, lecturer, anthologist, and autobiographer, he possessed a public versatility that…

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