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My three propositions to poetry are

— F. S. Flint Otherworld Cadences (1920)

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B)Rhyme and metre are artificial and an external addition to poetry | C)Artistic form of the future is prose with cadence for lyrical expression

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My own unryhmed cadences , and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

The point is that any piece of Impressionism, whether it be prose, verse or painting, or sculpture, is the record of the impression.

The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.

Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme.

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

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