Reviewers fifty years ago were by today's standards extraordinarily tough. They said exactly what they thought, even about their most influential contemporaries. Listen, for example, to Randall Jarrell's description of a book by the famous anthologist Oscar Williams: it 'gave the impression of having been written on a typewriter by a typewriter.' That remark kept Jarrell out of subsequent Williams anthologies [...] Their praise mattered, because readers knew it did not come lightly.
Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?
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