LOUIS MACNEICE (3)

A certain knowledge of the poets's personal background will help us to understand him, for his language is to some extent personal.




Poets today are working back from luxury-writing and trying once more to become functional.




The poet is a maker, not a retail trader. The writer today should be not so much the mouthpiece of a community (for then he will only tell it what it knows already) as its conscience, its critical faculty, its generous instinct.




Also see:

Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry



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