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“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?”

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Author:Randall Jarrell

“The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.”

Use Song Modern Speech Poetry Is Heresy

Author:Herbert Read

“The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.”

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Author:Wendy Cope

“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...

“The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.”

Modern Poetry Is Modern Poetry Watersheds

Author:Robert Morgan

“Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.”

Attention Modern Poet Poetry Is Formal

Book:Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

Source: Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs