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==Poetry== Read's conception of poetry was influenced by his mentors [[T. E. Hulme]], [[F. S. Flint]], [[Marianne Moore]] and [[William Carlos Williams|W. C. Williams]], believing "true poetry was never speech but always a song", quoted with the rest of his definition 'What is a Poem' in his 1926 essay of that name (in his endword to his Collected Poems of 1966).<ref name=CollectedPoems /> Read's ''Phases of English Poetry'' was an evolutionary study seeking to answer metaphysical rather than pragmatic questions.<ref>Baro, Geno Review, Actual and Historical, 'Poetry' Vol 77 no 6 (1951).</ref> Read's definitive guide to poetry however, was his ''Form in Modern Poetry'', which he published in 1932.<ref>Read, Herbert 'Form in Modern Poetry'' (first published 1932) Vision Press, Estover 1948</ref> In 1951, literary critic A. S. Collins said of Read: "In his poetry he burnt the white ecstasy of intellect, terse poetry of austere beauty retaining much of his earliest [[Imagist]] style."<ref>Collins, A. S., ''English Literature of the Twentieth Century'', London: University Tutorial Press, 1951.</ref> This style was evident in Read's earliest collection, ''Eclogues'' 1914-18.<ref>Allott, Kenneth, ''Contemporary Verse'' Penguin Poets, Harmondsworth, 1950.</ref>
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