English Poetry Quotes
- This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything… — Wilfred Owen
- I never had much education in English poetry as such, — Anne Carson
- I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read… — Peter Porter
- English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the… — James Fenton
- Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language… — George Orwell
- The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically… — James Fenton