Consolidation.

The thirties were a carry-over from the twenties, a period of consolidation for the chief poets, Conrad Aiken, John Crown Ransom, Alan Tait. These were "fugitives determined to move from the city." Poetry in their hands achieved leisure and refinement, a protest [unclear: again] the economics of the decade. Macleish alone was satirical in contrast. Wm. Carlos Williams demonstrated the more juke box elements of American culture, and was very popular; and E. E. Cummings, with his great virtue of anger, wild man of American letters, wrote lines that sprawl over the page. Since 1940 there has been a return to the mythical-psychological territory skirted by Eliot.