...Shelley, it went into verse that was not always human". Er geht schließlich so weit, zu behaupten: "It may almost be said that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal", denn "there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms" . Synge erklärt, daß...

...Shelley, it went into verse that was not always human". Er geht schließlich so weit, zu behaupten: "It may almost be said that before verse can be human again it niust learn to be brutal", denn Jthere is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"...

...lovely, fatalistic Deidre of the Sorrows, written when he knew he was dying of an incurable disease. "Before verse can be human again, it must learn to be brutal, " he wrote in the preface to his slim volume of poems and translations. He tries to prove this in such...

...advance, Synge was more prophet than poet. Many of the older poets, such as Villon and Herrick and Burns, used the whole of their personal life as their material,...would follow his funeral. ON AN ANNIVERSARY After reudini/ the dates in a book of Lyrics. With Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen We end Cervantes, Marot,...

...uncouthness, are forever quoting those significant words of Synge wherein he is credited with having affirmed, "It may almost be said that before verse can be human again, it must learn to be brutal." Because a man like Masefield deems it worthy of his interest to treat of themes like "The Everlasting...

...usually a flower of evil or good; but it is the timbre of poetry that wears most surely, and there is ne timbre that has not strong roots among the clay and...by feeble blood. It may almost be said that before vene can be human again it must learn to be brutal. Like Herrick, he wrote verse about himself, for...

...part of it, impels and uplifts him. He portrays even the casual and coarse strength of life and shows that " what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood." He sees the amazing vitality beneath what seems merely vociferous; he knows the shining health that...

.... . . Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successfully by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood." RUDYARD KIPLING New tendencies are contagious. But they also disclose themselves simultaneously in...

...responded to Synge's proclamation that " the strong things of life are needed in poetry also . . . and it may almost be said that before verse can be human again it must be brutal." Masefield brought back to poetry that mixture of beauty and brutality which is its most...

.... . . Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successfully by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood." RUDYARD KIPLING New tendencies are contagious. But they also disclose themselves simultaneously in...