19th century Quote by Robert Hass

The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the…

— Eavan Boland

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

— James Fenton

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

— Andrew Motion

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

“In the nineteenth century, poetry was a bestselling genre rather than the cultish phenomenon it is now.”

— John McWhorter

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

More modern poetry is written than read.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by…

— Robert Morgan

It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really…

— Robert Hass

“Alongside the wide participation in everyday reading of newspapers and magazines, the era of 'mass reading' of books that characterised the period from the…

— Tony Bennett

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

— Robert Hass