Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 66
... poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being formed to cultivate a taste for it ; the B.B.C. is being chivvied to give more and more attention to it ; some poets spend so much time in writing and ...
... poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being formed to cultivate a taste for it ; the B.B.C. is being chivvied to give more and more attention to it ; some poets spend so much time in writing and ...
Page 103
... poetic renaissance . Unluckily the writers who stayed at home did not share the enthusiasm of Marsh and his poets . Apart from D. H. Lawrence , a domesticated warrior whose adorers suggested a faith rather than a fashion , all ...
... poetic renaissance . Unluckily the writers who stayed at home did not share the enthusiasm of Marsh and his poets . Apart from D. H. Lawrence , a domesticated warrior whose adorers suggested a faith rather than a fashion , all ...
Page 166
... poetry has ceased , in this country , to be read . Here , however , is a paradox . On the Continent of Europe he was always , and is still , regarded as one of the greatest of all English poets . Shakespeare , Byron , and Kipling mean ...
... poetry has ceased , in this country , to be read . Here , however , is a paradox . On the Continent of Europe he was always , and is still , regarded as one of the greatest of all English poets . Shakespeare , Byron , and Kipling mean ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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