Three talks by JONATHAN RABAN on some aspects of contemporary verse
1: The Poem Against Society
Mr Raban argues that since T. S. Eliot whom he sees not as the first great modern poet but as the last writer at the end of an era, the language of poetry has found itself 'hustled into the bazaar: it has become, at least in the eye of the public, one of many professionalised rhetorics.'
