![In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-the-new-poetry-i-had-attacked-the-british-poets-nervous-preference-for-gent.jpg)
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