The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
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Clifton Fadiman was a 20th-century American radio and television personality. Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression