Modern British Poetry
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Modern British Poetry is a book edited by Louis Untermeyer. A passage says the poets of a generation before this time were fired with such ideas as freedom, a deep and burning awe of nature, an insatiable hunger for truth in all its forms and manifestations. The passage quotes Max Plowman as saying that the characteristic poets of the Victorian Era wrote under the dominance of churchliness, of sweetness and light, and a thousand lesser theories that have not truth but comfort for their end.
The text names Oscar Wilde as the one who led the men of the now famous nineties toward an æsthetic freedom. The poems in the book include Tired Tim, about a Tim who lags the long bright morning through, and Old Susan, about a Susan who sits with one fat guttering candle lit when her work was done.
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- Author
- Louis Untermeyer
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
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- Poetry
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