The genuinely innovatory , the truly 'experiential' poetry is always firmly rooted in the achievement of the past. - Vernon Scannell

The poet's need to try to find his own voice , a recognizable individual voice that carries the signature of his voice in almost every line . . . the unique tone being the consequence of the poet's rigorous search for truth ( his truth(, his absolute fidelity to the nature of the experience he was exploring.

The authentic British poetry of the second world war was not a poetry of protest, still less was it inspired by patriotic enthusiasm

Some poets are more deeply involved than others in the raw experience which lies behind the poem and for them the act of composition is an act of self exploration with the definite goal of enlightenment rather than the ideally depersonalized construction of a beautiful and autonomous object.