This author wrote a short, oft-quoted article that offers the literary prescriptions "Do not retell in mediocre verse whathas already been done in good prose" and "Go in fear of abstractions" in "a list of don'ts for those beginning to write verses."This poet claimed, "any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it" inthe second chapter of a book that defiÂned great literature as "language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree
This author wrote a short, oft-quoted article that offers the literary prescriptions "Do not retell in mediocre verse whathas already been done in good prose" and "Go in fear of abstractions" in "a list of don'ts for those beginning to write verses."This poet claimed, "any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it" inthe second chapter of a book that defiÂned great literature as "language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree"and notably deÂfined literature as "news that STAYS news." This author of the ABC of Reading borrowed the Beardsley quote"Beauty is difficult" as a refrain in a work that begins one section with the assertion, "Hang it all, Robert Browning, there canbe but the one Sordello". This poet's best-known collection includes the notable line "what thou lovest well remains / the restis dross" and repeats his famous Modernist dictum "Make it new." This author wrote a terrible poem with the lines "petalson a wet, black bough" and "the apparition of these faces in the crowd." For 10 points, name this Modernist poet who wroteThe Cantos and "In a Station of the Metro."
This author wrote a short, oft-quoted article that offers the literary prescriptions "Do not retell in mediocre verse whathas already been done in good prose" and "Go in fear of abstractions" in "a list of don'ts for those beginning to write verses."This poet claimed, "any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank.
Ezra Pound