1940 in Poetry - Events

Events

  • English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
  • American poet Louis Zukofsky finishes the first half of A

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    Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
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    Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.
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    Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
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