82 The Future Poetry
Elizabethan type, Shelley even, forgetting his discovery of a new
and fine literary form for dramatic poetry to give us the Eliza-
bethan violences of theCenci, Tennyson, Swinburne, even after
Atalanta, following the same ignis fatuus, a very flame of fatuity
and futility, are all victims of the same hypnotism. Recently a
new turn is visible; but as yet it is doubtful whether the right
conditions for a renovation of the dramatic form and a true use
of the dramatic motive have come into being. At any rate the
predestined creator, if he is to come, is not yet among us.