Friday, October 22, 2004
FPA on Modern Poetry and Art
Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960), To the Neo-Pseudoists, from By and Large (Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1914), p. 84:
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Poets and painters and sculptors,
Ye of the Screeching schools,
Scorners of Art's conventions,
Haters of bonds and rules,
Mockers of line and rhythm,
Loathers of color and rhyme,
What of your new creations?
What of the Test of Time?
Fetters no longer bind you,
Ye of the New To-day,
But -- if a dolt may ask it --
What have ye got to say?
Here is another question,
Less of the head than heart:
Is the new stuff wonderful merely
Because it is rotten art?
