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A bard whom there were none to praise,
And very few to read.
Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,
Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he.
In yonder Grave a Druid lies
Where slowly winds the Stealing Wave!
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Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
Wert Living the same Poet which thou'rt Now,
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You who desired so much--in vain to ask--
Yet fed your hunger like an endless task,
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Creation's blithe and petaled word
To the lounged goddess when she rose
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Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.
The author's hegemony must be broken. It is impossible to go too far in fanatical self-denial or fanatical self-renunciation: I am ...
No real "vital" character in fiction is altogether a conscious construction of the author. On the contrary, it may be a sort of pa ...
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