 With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system,...  Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life - Page 277by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
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...poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the...none but Rogers and Crabbe are free; and that the ? resent and next generations will finally be of this opinion, am the more confirmed in this by having... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1903 - 1170 pages
...attempted. 1. " With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced that »UH of U3 — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the...upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system or systems from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free ; and that the present and next generations will finally... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 768 pages
...Prodiero (London 1901), 4, 169; j, 559, $54, 560, 347, 323: »we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetic system or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free.« »I have been amongst the builders of this Babel.« »I am ashamed of it«. »National poet of mankind«.... | |
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