| Jerome Christensen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 464 pages
...Treasury series (1881), Matthew Arnold endorsed Algernon Swinburne's observation that Byron's power "lies in 'the splendid and imperishable excellence...outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.1" Under Arnold's sponsorship the criterion of sincerity had a long life, but its span was... | |
| Andrew Rutherford - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 536 pages
...does deserve) the noble praise of him which I have already quoted from Mr. Swinburne; the praise for 'the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.' True, as a man, Byron could not manage himself, could not guide his ways aright, but was all astray.... | |
| Carl Dawson, John Pfordresher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 482 pages
...Swinburne's - the most pertinent and profound since those of Goethe - to the effect that in Byron there is a 'splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.' With this 'noble praise,' as Mr. Arnold rightly calls it - and it is not less just than noble - the... | |
| John Stokes - Drama - 1996 - 242 pages
...by Swinburne first published in 1866 (revised version 1875), in which he had written admiringly of "the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers...outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity with strength."9 For Swinburne, Byron had been the magnificent poet of unmediated nature, a figure... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 606 pages
...is all poetically conceived in Lord B.'s mind." In such wise did Murray bear testimony to Byron's " splendid and imperishable excellence, which covers...defects — the excellence of sincerity and strength." TO JOHN HOBHOUSE, ESQ., THIS POEM IS INSCRIBED, 1IY HIS FRIEND. January 22nd, 1816. ADVERTISEMENT.... | |
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