My objection to metre is that it enables people to write ve… - T. E. Hulme

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My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.

T. E. Hulme

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Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 – September 28, 1917) was an English writer, critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism, especially the Imagist poetic form.

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My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration. - T. E. Hulme

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