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“TRUTH of substance in union with distinction of style.” Arnold’s summary of the characteristics of the best poetry is a formula on the whole so satisfying that one returns to it again and again. The ...

Seldom has the motive of a lyrical sequence been stated with so complete a felicity, in a single image so elemental and impressive. We are reminded of the diverse beauty of the overture to Sonnets ...

The great Irish poet, James Clarence Mangan, died, at 46, on June 20th, 1849, a victim of cholera. “His miserable corpse”, wrote James Joyce, “sent a shudder through the hospital staff and he was ...