Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
The New Poets of England and America
Young poetry is the breath of parted lips.
-Robert Frost, introduction
The New Poets of England and America
They’re no longer new; they’re not even alive
Those post-war young voices of strength and hope
Working through the wastelands after men of destiny
Blitzed beauty with bullets, bombers, and barbed wire
Some of them soldiers, and war-weary all
They were worn out, but determined and young
Digging out the words they had hidden away
Cleaning them up for service to humanity
They were young; they were very much like you
Doing their duty as artists and poets must do
The New Poets of England and America
Ed. Donald Hall et al
Introduction by Robert Frost
New York: Meridian Books, 1957
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