Poetry For Moderns
May, 1965
If you're wondering where poetry is headed these days, the answer is from bad to verse. Blame for the gloomy state of modern poesy should not be heaped on modern bards—many members of the wastelanded gentry could still make it with the muse if given half a chance. No, the real trouble is this: The function of the poet is to romanticize life—and in our atomic age there is just not one hell of a lot left in life to romanticize about. Not even a first-rate layman can get very many flights of poetic...
