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Quotes from Lecture on Modern Poetry — T. E. Hulme

1883–1917 England

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My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.

Lecture on Modern Poetry (1914)

The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.

Lecture on Modern Poetry (1914)

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