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I have accepted what they themselves would have been well
able to alter if they had so wished. Since I am not
primarily concerned with generalized themes and individual
native traditions, I have preferred to follow chronology even
when it permits certain figures to intrude in what might
otherwise have been, notably in the case of the Russian poets
born between 1889 and 1893, significant clusters. Within an
inevitably heterogeneous structure a certain homogeneity
seems nevertheless to emerge.

The reader will decide upon the strengths and weaknesses of
the book as a whole. The essays, brief as they are, are meant to
encourage him to read or re-read the poetry to which they
refer. If anything I write should discourage him from doing so,
I hope he will turn to the poems themselves, in whatever form
he finds them most accessible, and share my conviction that the
last century and a quarter has been one of the most fertile
periods for poetry in the long history of European literature.

Reading, 1981

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Publication Information: Book Title: A Reader's Guide to Fifty Modern European Poets. Contributors: John Pilling - author. Publisher: Heinemann. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1982. Page Number: 12.
    
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