All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands.
More modern poetry is written than read.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.