Hollow Men

August 17, 2020

This Speech was given before poetry society on 26 September 1981.

There are a lot of good poets today. Unfortunately, there are no great ones. There are no Eliots, Pouds, Plaths, or Whitmans among us. The experiment of the San Francisco poets has failed. The violence of the Northern poets has waned, and the hope of the Southern poets has "Gone With the Wind."