. Backgrounds of literature. anceof the democratic order in all its logical se-quences, his instinctive and sane feeling that ifgreat poetry is to be written on this continent itmust find its themes, not in the interests of thefew, but in the occupation and experience of themany; above all, he brought to his work a vital,searching, pictorial imagination of great com-pass and power of illumination. There is much that is repellent in his work;much that is coarse, gross, offensively and pe-dantically lacking in reticence, in regard for thesanctities of the body and of the relations be-tween men a
. Backgrounds of literature. anceof the democratic order in all its logical se-quences, his instinctive and sane feeling that ifgreat poetry is to be written on this continent itmust find its themes, not in the interests of thefew, but in the occupation and experience of themany; above all, he brought to his work a vital,searching, pictorial imagination of great com-pass and power of illumination. There is much that is repellent in his work;much that is coarse, gross, offensively and pe-dantically lacking in reticence, in regard for thesanctities of the body and of the relations be-tween men and women, which the ascetic and thesensualist have alike misunderstood and misin-terpreted. There is much in his egotism, hisaggressive and ill-timed assertion of himself;there has been much, too, in the ill-advised andunintelligent advocacy of some of his devotees,that have combined to keep sane readers at adistance. These advocates have too often takenthe attitude toward other American poets that 201 -v^iS %^.*^.l ^4ii^: W. Old Well at Huntin<i-tou
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