There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that, as a rule, a poet should read them.


The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse (ed. 1956)

W. H. Auden Quotes

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that, as a rule, a poet should...

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that, as a rule, a poet should...

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that, as a rule, a poet should...

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that, as a rule, a poet should...