Modern English poetry

Abstract

It is the fashion to-day to speak of the crisis of this and the crisis of that; but the ominous word, l am afraid, indicates a fear at the back of our mind that is by no means, imaginary. It indicates an alarming turning point in our civilization, our sense of insecurity. There is also a crisis in Poetry and that is precisely the title of the book on the subject by Professor V. de Sola da Pinto. Fewer men and women read poetry to"day not only in England but also in other countries. The problem has become so acute, the poet has been so alarmed by his growing isolation, that he has decided to study the position carefully and do something about it. Last year M. Pierre-Louis Flouquet, the editor of Joumal des Poetes convened a meeting of 150 poets in Belgium, under the chairmanship of M. Jean Cassou.