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James Beck: “In poetry, where beauty of rhythm, melody of sound and nobility of thought were once regarded as the true tests, we now…”

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In poetry, where beauty of rhythm, melody of sound and nobility of thought were once regarded as the true tests, we now have in freak forms of poetry the exaltation of the grotesque and brutal.
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Beck laments the decline of beauty in poetry, highlighting a shift in artistic values.

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