“The decision that the material used at one occurrence of the poetic…” — John Drinkwater

“The decision that the material used at one occurrence of the poetic mood shall be related to the material used at the next is not in itself an operation of the purely poetic energy, but of another.”

Separating poetic inspiration from the craft of structural organisation · Essay, The Lyric, Lyric Forms

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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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