The Banner of Civic Spirit

Abstract

One cannot understand the contemporary situation in poetry and the tendencies in its development without making sense of what the representatives of the younger generation of artists of the word are doing. After all, the characteristic features that will become apparent in our literature in the next few years begin to be formed, come to fruition, and gather force above all in the art of the young people who see the surrounding world their own way, from the historical position of their own generation. Following the work of young people is both interesting and instructive because their quests and discoveries often supply us, the older generation, with creative impulses. And one of the main questions which the poets of the older generation ask themselves in their thoughts and natural concern for the future of literature is whether young people can really take up and carry on our poetry's banner of civic spirit alongside the older writers. This isn't an idle question. It also worried the poets of the generati...