The Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and PoetryStephen Spender (ed), Donald Hall Alphabetically arranged account of poets and analyses of their poetry. |
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... Johnson is here appealing to criteria which , whatever the variations in critical idiom , must surely be regarded as essential and permanent . At the same time it would be a mistake to suppose that in thus reiterating and renewing the ...
... Johnson is here appealing to criteria which , whatever the variations in critical idiom , must surely be regarded as essential and permanent . At the same time it would be a mistake to suppose that in thus reiterating and renewing the ...
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... Johnson , Lionel [ Pigot ] ( 1867–1902 ) , an Irish poet , is best known for By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross and Dark Angel , a stern expression of his Catholic faith . In Ezra POUND's Mauberly , he is said to have died ...
... Johnson , Lionel [ Pigot ] ( 1867–1902 ) , an Irish poet , is best known for By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross and Dark Angel , a stern expression of his Catholic faith . In Ezra POUND's Mauberly , he is said to have died ...
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... Johnson's sincere piety is " sicklied o'er " with a drab rationalism and his own recurrent despondency . In the last two decades of his life , Johnson's poetry gains in both mellowness and immediacy , the latter showing less in his ...
... Johnson's sincere piety is " sicklied o'er " with a drab rationalism and his own recurrent despondency . In the last two decades of his life , Johnson's poetry gains in both mellowness and immediacy , the latter showing less in his ...
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List of contributors page | 7 |
List of plates II | 21 |
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