"What happened to poetry in the twentieth century……" — James Fenton

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began… - James Fenton

"What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page."

— James Fenton

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52 Quotes by James Fenton

James Fenton has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a…
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear…
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the…
Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always…
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French…
A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I…
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic…
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is…
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper…
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we…

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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I… — Chinua Achebe
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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages… — Russell Baker
My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could… — Javier Bardem
I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things… — Glenn Beck

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