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Page 28
... poet ; and a poem for an occa- sion is likely to be weak and worthless . Duty gets but mediocre service out of its slaves . Yet if ever there was a man who could come to the task of poetic eulogy of the dead soldier , it was Tennyson ...
... poet ; and a poem for an occa- sion is likely to be weak and worthless . Duty gets but mediocre service out of its slaves . Yet if ever there was a man who could come to the task of poetic eulogy of the dead soldier , it was Tennyson ...
Page 33
... poetic generation . He has been in sym- pathy with every great poet , from Dante downward . He is , as it were , the end of the Renaissance . After all , there is only a difference of degree , of intensity of knowl- edge , between , say ...
... poetic generation . He has been in sym- pathy with every great poet , from Dante downward . He is , as it were , the end of the Renaissance . After all , there is only a difference of degree , of intensity of knowl- edge , between , say ...
Page 110
... poet seated in a rabid frenzy behind an immense bowlder on the river bank , the parchment before him , a burnt stick in his hand , his thoughts upon some primeval damsel , who was prob- ably at that moment across the river scrubbing the ...
... poet seated in a rabid frenzy behind an immense bowlder on the river bank , the parchment before him , a burnt stick in his hand , his thoughts upon some primeval damsel , who was prob- ably at that moment across the river scrubbing the ...
Contents
Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate | 17 |
John W Durst | 33 |
On Foot in Tlascala | 46 |
Copyright | |
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