British Poetry and I

Abstract

Lest the title of my brief piece seem pretentious, let me hasten to point out in all humility that a writer, even as in the present case a very minor one, has to relate to the various traditions that have a bearing on his work on a one on one basis, largely without the mediation of academic criticism or theory. My aim, in other words, is modest – not to present a comprehensive, critically astute picture of British poetry but, rather, a memoir of my engagement with it.