The kind of poetry to avoid is the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.


Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader (1961)

Clifton Fadiman Quotes

The kind of poetry to avoid is the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, ...

The kind of poetry to avoid is the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, ...

The kind of poetry to avoid is the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, ...

The kind of poetry to avoid is the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, ...