"One way of looking at poetic periods is to notice what contemporary interests and knowledge penetrate the best verse written at the time and what moods are permitted in treating of these matters."
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Introduction Contemporary Verse, Ed Kenneth Allott, Penguin Books, London 1950
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Kenneth Allott
1912 β 1973
Kenneth Allott (29 August 1912 β 1973) was an Anglo-Irish poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold.
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