Poetry and Politics

What is the duty of the poet in this age of expanding fears and savaging disasters?

Should he take sides? Or continue unconcerned? What is the function of poetry?

Here is an urgent and omnipresent problem, which deserves the active attention of everyone interested in the fate of literature.

The Phoenix Club is offering a prize of 10/- for the best statement of under 1000 words on "The Relation Between Poetry and Politics."

Don't let the fact that you've taken English stage 1, deter you from entering!