"What is new poetry? The difference is not mere details of form, measure rhyme schemes or diction, but a return to contemporary speech, thought, imagination and spiritual life, coupled with oriental and cosmopolitan influences ,and a direction of vision, with perfection of form and delicacy of feeling."

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