Reader's Query
Is there a quick way of becoming a modern poet ?
If there is, I should very much like to know it.
Are there, for instance, any "Poetry Schools" Where they teach one the rules And at the same time give one a chance of learning While earning," Such as those Correspondence Colleges which guarantee To make a man a journalist at a nominal fee ?
Or is it absolutely necessary to study .
A poet like Masefield (and use words like "bloody "), Or D. H. Lawrence (Whom I view with utter abhorrence), Or am I bound To wade through the works of T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound ?
Of course I am quite prepared to read these people —but
What I really want is a short cut Which will enable me to turn out stuff
That is .good enough,
Stuff, I mean, that will pass
As poetry even if it is not high dais.
And, as the idea of going through a long course of drudgery is hateful, If anyone can give me a few useful tips I shall be eternally grateful.
In short, I want to be able to write such a poem that no editor will dare to return it
With the usual hypocritical regrets to—
W. HODGSON BCRNET.
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