Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 36
... poets of the world was I regret to say - committing a burg- lary . It was not his first offence , nor was it his last ; and the ne'er - do - well also ... poet , lecher , pickpocket , housebreaker , and murderer , read- 36 BOOKS AND BIPEDS.
... poets of the world was I regret to say - committing a burg- lary . It was not his first offence , nor was it his last ; and the ne'er - do - well also ... poet , lecher , pickpocket , housebreaker , and murderer , read- 36 BOOKS AND BIPEDS.
Page 195
... poets , an anonymous English critic wrote in the Temple Bar magazine of May , 1869 : " Our propo- sition is that he is not a great poet , unquestionably not a poet of the first rank , all but unquestionably not a poet of the second rank ...
... poets , an anonymous English critic wrote in the Temple Bar magazine of May , 1869 : " Our propo- sition is that he is not a great poet , unquestionably not a poet of the first rank , all but unquestionably not a poet of the second rank ...
Page 196
... poet a considerable service in editing him for contemporary readers . At any rate , he has reduced the vast bulk of the overstuffed classic known as Tennyson's Poems to the pleasing dimen- sions of a pocket volume with , I think ...
... poet a considerable service in editing him for contemporary readers . At any rate , he has reduced the vast bulk of the overstuffed classic known as Tennyson's Poems to the pleasing dimen- sions of a pocket volume with , I think ...
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