Carolina Quotes“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?
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
transition [sic] was the avant-garde English-language magazine published in Paris 1927–1938; “A Note on Poetry”, p. 48
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1927
- locator
- p. 48
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““Modern” poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism…” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-CD7978C25F. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/cd7978c25f
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