of our inner life. But the history of the present is still being written, and the excitement of the new can be bewildering: every poem about using a microwave starts to look sexier than Shakespeare's sonnets. Eliot's "sense of fulfilment" is less easily had. Ezra Pound, his severer friend, used to lament that "the thought of what America would be like if the classics had a wide circulation troubles my sleep".from Telegraph: The meaning of modern poetry
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