'...I think modern art, in England anyway, has fallen under the pernicious influence of Augustus John. The Slade School calls every charming picture "pretty-pretty" and flies to the other extreme, in mistaking the grotesque for the beautiful. The poets are just as bad; for those who have energy and freshness fear to become Sunday-magazinish and write their Wheels and Rolls and other atrocities under the impression that they are out-Henleying Henley, and discovering a new pathless world of vers libre, free from the trammels of such minor accessories of poetry such as rhyme or metre or even musical language.'
from a letter to 'Rosalind', February 20, 1921 in Letters to a Friend by Winifred Holtby
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