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Three Great Modern Poets
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Three Great Modern Poets

By Timothy Sandefur

May 20, 2016
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No art has suffered more from the trends of anti-conceptualism, subjectivism, and naturalism than poetry has. After a half century during which poets threw away the tools of their craft and published work that deliberately avoided meter, metaphor, and meaning, one can hardly blame readers who now take it for granted that poetry is a subjective, “anythin…

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