What English poetry and Esperanto have in common

If you google for “There is no mass audience for Esperanto.”, you will hit a seething essay on poetry, by David Prater, which contains the following text:

“There is no mass audience for poetry. There is no mass audience for trugo. There is no mass audience for silversmithing. There is no mass audience for Esperanto. There is no mass audience for the works of Flann O’Brien. Nevertheless each of these does exist, cannot be made not to exist, and will go on existing, whether O’Brien likes it or not.”

Happy reading!
- Mike Jones