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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A STRENUOUS CRITIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You scorn as idle - you who praise Last Line: As vivid as a pulsing star. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657) | |||
YOU scorn as idle -- you who praise Each posturing hero of the herd -- The lofty bearing of a phrase, The noble countenance of a word. "This has no import for the age!" And so your votive wreaths you heap On him who brought unto our Stage A mightier dulness o'er the deep. Great Heaven! When these with clamour shrill Drift out to Lethe's harbour bar, A verse of Lovelace shall be still As vivid as a pulsing star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE MEMORY OF MY WORTHY FRIEND, COLONEL RICHARD LOVELACE by CHARLES COTTON A FOOTNOTE TO A FAMOUS LYRIC by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY MOTTO RICHARD LOVELACE, LUCASTA. POSTHUME POEMS by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, MR. RICHARD LOVELACE, UPON HIS POEMS by ANDREW MARVELL TO MY MUSE (WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE SHADE OF COLONEL LOVELACE) by AUSTIN PHILIPS WHERE BEAUTY LINGERS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS LUCASTA REMAINS UNCONVINCED by KATHERINE MCALPINE LUCASTA REPLIES TO RICHARD LOVELACE by MARGARET ROGERS |
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