Tag: thehatredofpoetry
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Making Nothing Happen
It was probably inevitable that the two most famous quotes about poetry’s purpose, Shelley’s ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’ and W. H. Auden’s ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ would be so contradictory: poetry is a house with many rooms. David O’Hanlon-Alexandra’s ‘New Defences of Poetry’ project, now available on its own website here,…
Jeremy Wikeley 