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“Poetry merely descriptive of nature, however vivid, no longer seems enough for me, there has to be added to it, the human judgement, the human evaluation.”

Shift from pure description toward human meaning · Autobiography, Life is My Song, 1937

About John Gould Fletcher

John Gould Fletcher

3 January 1886–20 May 1950

In the pantheon of American poetry, few figures embody the restless spirit of early twentieth-century modernism quite like John Gould Fletcher. Born into the genteel society of Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 3, 1886, Fletcher would traverse continents and literary movements, ultimately crafting a body of work that…

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