The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Faber Book of Modern Verse, The,an anthology published in 1936 , edited by M. Roberts , which did much to influence taste and establish the reputations of a rising generation of poets, including Auden , MacNeice , Empson , Graves , Dylan Thomas . In his introduction, Roberts traces the influences of Clough , G. M. Hopkins (himself well represented), the French symbolists , etc. on modern poetry, defines the ‘European’ sensibility of such writers as T. S. Eliot , Pound , and Yeats , and offers a persuasive apologia for various aspects of Modernism which the reading public had resisted, identifying them as an apparent obscurity compounded of condensed metaphor, allusion, intricacy and difficulty of ideas, and verbal play. The poet, he declared, ‘must charge each word to its maximum poetic value’: ‘primarily poetry is an exploration of the possibilities of language.’
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