"It Gives No Help..."

"if I am shocked at the undeserved suffering in the world, that shock is not thinking. Here is a little book of verse, the work of one well skilled in his art, but it is simply the shock and nothing more. Much of modern literature is of the same kind and it is worthless. It gives no help."

*Last Pages of a Journal* by Mark Rutherford (Oxford University Press, 1915)