the international wrong

...he understood that, in the 1930s, poetry was bound to descend from the heights and become occasional, as it was during the English Civil War. --A Poet’s Politics

and when was it otherwise if i may ask? that is, when poetry was not bound to descend from the heights?

там еще цитируют “the international wrong” из September 1, 1939. hmm... нет ли тут антисемитизма ложной моральной эквивалентности