“It so happens that this energy, next to the poetic energy, is the most…” — John Drinkwater

“It so happens that this energy, next to the poetic energy, is the most impressive and satisfying of all mental activities, and while poetry may exist independently of it, the fact remains that it very rarely does so.”

Valuing formal organisation as poetry’s closest creative companion · 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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