Abercrombie, Lascelles | Mary C. Sturgeon (essay date 1916)
Mary C. Sturgeon (essay date 1916)
SOURCE: Sturgeon, Mary C. “Lascelles Abercrombie.” In Studies of Contemporary Poets, pp. 11-35. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1916.
[In the following excerpt, Sturgeon examines the ways in which Abercrombie's poetry represents the age in which it was written.]
In the sweet chorus of modern poetry one may hear a strange new harmony. It is the life of our time, evoking its own music: constraining the poetic spirit to utter its own message. The peculiar beauty of contemporary poetry, with its fresh and varied charm, grows from that; and in that, too, its vitality is assured. Its art has the deep sanction of loyalty: its loyalty draws inspiration from the living source.
There is a fair company of these new singers; and it would seem that there should be large hope for a generation, whether in its life or letters, which can find such expression. Listening carefully, however, some notes ring...
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