Byron: His Achievement and SignificanceGrian-Aig Press, 1976 - 120 pages |
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... poetry : the vagueness , the unseeing eye , the piling up of personification , the artificial prosody , the plati- tudinous moralising , the grandiose apostrophising , the blown- up , the sham . 13 The aim of every writer of this school ...
... poetry : the vagueness , the unseeing eye , the piling up of personification , the artificial prosody , the plati- tudinous moralising , the grandiose apostrophising , the blown- up , the sham . 13 The aim of every writer of this school ...
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... poetry a tendency to dredge a theme to its dregs , to surround a hard core of true inspiration with verbiage and padding , to overstate . Both have the driving force character- istic of his best poetry ; both , as distinct from the rest ...
... poetry a tendency to dredge a theme to its dregs , to surround a hard core of true inspiration with verbiage and padding , to overstate . Both have the driving force character- istic of his best poetry ; both , as distinct from the rest ...
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... poet who lays claim to some degree of stature does more than merely turn out poetry . Poets ( and prose writers too , for that matter ) are the custodians of a nation's language . It is they who keep it alive , add to it , detract from ...
... poet who lays claim to some degree of stature does more than merely turn out poetry . Poets ( and prose writers too , for that matter ) are the custodians of a nation's language . It is they who keep it alive , add to it , detract from ...
Contents
Hours of Idleness | 1 |
The Satirist in Embryo | 7 |
After Childe Harold | 17 |
Copyright | |
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