Letter with a young poet

In John Lehmann. Letter with a young poet, ( has Letter to has Young Poet ) is a letter of Virginia Woolf published on July 7th, 1932. The Romance British cière exposes to it in a score of pages, on an off-hand tone but not stripped of depth, a certain number of literary councils with John Lehmann, the recipient.

A design of poetry

To one moment turning point of the Poetry, Woolf exposes its sights on contemporary English poetry and the reports/ratios which it maintains with its glorious last - but also with the modern world which it seems, contrary to the novel, to have great difficulty to integrate.

Woolf refuses to adopt the defeatism ambient and predicted that the poets of its century will be able to carry high the torch of their Article It does not minimize therefore the difficulties which they will have to overcome. Examples with the support, it shows how much the concrete XXe century seems to be incorporated in large pains in the poetic language. For as much, she insists on the fact that the return to oneself - the interior world of the poet - is a sterile loophole which would not make it possible to lead to the necessary renewal of poetry.

Virginia Woolf shows empathy with regard to the Destinataire which informs him of its pangs. With a pretense humility and on a light tone which refuses the peremptory one (Woolf the novelist ventures on a ground which is not it his), it can highlight with originality and simplicity essential problems - the report/ratio with the Modernité - to which many authors were confronted in their time.

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