![Al Alvarez: In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.](assets/images/quotes/181/1804/al-alvarez-in-the-new-poetry-i-had-attacked-the-british-poe-180357.jpg "Al Alvarez: In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.")
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