“I should strive (on reading a book of poetry) to evoke the a soul out of this piece of inanimate matter, a something characteristic and structural inherent in this organic form which is friendly to me and responds to my mood.”

— John Gould Fletcher

Preface to Goblins and Pagodas, 1916

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American writer 1886–1950

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