Poetry
- Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems Of Love
- T. S. Eliot - Prufrock, and other observations
- Robert Graves - Fairies and Fusiliers
- Ivor Gurney - Severn and Somme
- Siegfried Sassoon - The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems
- William Watson - The Man Who Saw: and Other Poems Arising out of the War
- W. B. Yeats - The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse
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“Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“That’s why I quit and took up writing poetry instead.
It’s clean, it’s relaxing, it doesn’t squirt juice all over
Something you were certain of a minute ago and now your own face
Is a stranger and no one can tell you it’s true. Hey, stupid!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)