The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyDodd, Mead, 1918 - 343 страница |
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... containing Marpessa , Christ in Hades , and some lyrical pieces , appeared in 1897 , it was greeted by a loud chorus of approval , cere- moniously ratified by the bestowal of the First Prize from the British Academy . Some of the more ...
... containing Marpessa , Christ in Hades , and some lyrical pieces , appeared in 1897 , it was greeted by a loud chorus of approval , cere- moniously ratified by the bestowal of the First Prize from the British Academy . Some of the more ...
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... contains hardly any notable lines , and hardly any bad lines . Although quite dull , it never deviates into prose - it is always somehow poetical without ever becoming poetry . It is writ- ten in the heroic couplet , written with a ...
... contains hardly any notable lines , and hardly any bad lines . Although quite dull , it never deviates into prose - it is always somehow poetical without ever becoming poetry . It is writ- ten in the heroic couplet , written with a ...
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... contain many verses scor- ing off adverse critics , upon whom he exercises a sword of satire not always to be found among a poet's weapons ; which exercise seems to give him both relief and delight . Apart from these thrusts edged with ...
... contain many verses scor- ing off adverse critics , upon whom he exercises a sword of satire not always to be found among a poet's weapons ; which exercise seems to give him both relief and delight . Apart from these thrusts edged with ...
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... contain some truth ; but if the " new " poetry and the " new " criticism are really balder- dash , they should not require so much attention from one of the most eminent of contemporary writers . I think Mr. Watson is rather stiff ...
... contain some truth ; but if the " new " poetry and the " new " criticism are really balder- dash , they should not require so much attention from one of the most eminent of contemporary writers . I think Mr. Watson is rather stiff ...
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... contains a character worthy of Dickens , a faery touch of fantasy , a rippling , singing melody , with delightful audacities of rime . Tick , tack , tick , tack , I couldn't wait no longer ! Up I gets and bows polite and pleasant as a ...
... contains a character worthy of Dickens , a faery touch of fantasy , a rippling , singing melody , with delightful audacities of rime . Tick , tack , tick , tack , I couldn't wait no longer ! Up I gets and bows polite and pleasant as a ...
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Страница 50 - Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
Страница 51 - Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land. But take it: if the smack is sour, The better for the embittered hour; It should do good to heart and head When your soul is in my soul's stead; And I will friend you, if I may, In the dark and cloudy day.