“Shakespeare shows us tradition is a meaningless abstraction for the poet itself and I give thanks for for this poet reaching after nothing more distant than the impassioned accents of its own voice as it issued from an intuitive mind.”

—  Herbert Read

Form in Modern Poetry (first published 1932) published -Vision Press, Estover, 1948
Form in Modern Poetry(1932)

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