The text is an argumentative text written by T.S.Eliot to German people after World War II.
In the first line the author introduces his thesis about English as best language to write poetry. In the following lines he highlights as he doesn't mean that England produces best poems or poets but only that English is suited to write poetry; he supports this affirmation with poet's example of different country. After this clarification Eliot affirms that English has the largest vocabulary and it is due to the variety of elements that made up it ( statement supported by examples as the Germanic foundation, Scandivian elements, French, Latin and Celtic's influence). English's greatness is caused also by variety of metrical elements, take from different foreign traditions. He confirms that English is the richest to write poetry because derives by various linguistic sources. Starting for the first statement (richness of English and its causes) the author deduces that no art has ever been the exclusive possession of any one Europe's country and that some country equal other in the same arts. He give as example the period in which French tradition with Baudelaire and Valery influences England and European country. He says also that the greatness of art one in one period don't mean the creation of great artist. Going on Eliot affirms that is impossible understand any one European literature without knowing a good of the others. He concludes that the possibility of each literature to renewing itself consists in ability to receive and assimilate influence from above and in the ability to go back and learn from its own sources.