Abstract: In recent years it has become increasingly difficult for a young writer to pledge himelf, as Auden had done in his undergraduate days, to a career as a poet. The days when poetry was accorded high significance among the social mores – the times when the young Keats could make the romantic gesture of abandoning a profitable career in medicine to plunge himself into the serious but uncertain business of sculpting poems – are long since gone. The years when new instalments of verse-narrative were awaited avidly by a public for whom there was n...
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