F. R. Leavis - New bearings in English poetry (1932)

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He energized the Garden-Suburb ethos with a certain original talent and the vigour of a prolonged adolescence…rather like Keats's vulgarity with a Public School accent.

Of Rupert Brooke

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Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

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