 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 oldal
...just, on my soul, Like being stirred up with the very North Pole." He hits off Poe as follows : — " There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge." He was quite as severe to himself as to any of his contemporaries; and, as will be seen from the following... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 oldal
...heart, And though not a poet, yet all must admire In his letters of Pinto his skill on the liar. " There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common-sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 oldal
...upon Poe's life and work have been varied in the extreme. Lowell wrote in the " Fable for Critics " : There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge. It is a great deal to say of any one that he is threefifths genius. It is severe, however, to call... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1899 - 686 oldal
...liar. ' There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genins and two fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters,...a way to make people of common sense damn metres, 1300 Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1900 - 512 oldal
...In his letters of Pinto his skill on the liar. "There comes Poe with his raveu, like Barnaby Rndge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge,...iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common-sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind But the heart somehow... | |
 | James Albert Harrison - 1903 - 512 oldal
...general manner of the Fable," he writes, " we quote a portion of what he says about Mr. Poe : — " 'There comes Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make all men of common sense damn metres ; Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 336 oldal
...melody and imagination, in a supreme degree." — AG Newcomer, American Literature, pp. 118, 124. " There comes Poe, with his ' Raven,' like ' Barnaby...Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge." JR Lowell, A Fable for the Critics, 1848. "My firm conviction that widely as the fame of Poe has already... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1903 - 632 oldal
...the world's literature than any other American ? Or are those of his countrymen who say with Lowell There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge nearer to the truth? Perhaps before attempting to answer these questions it will be well to give some... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 oldal
...just, on my soul, Like being stirred up with the very North Pole." He hits off Poe as follows : — " There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge." He was quite as severe to himself as to any of his contemporaries ; and, as will be seen from the following... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 336 oldal
...liar. " There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters,...Who has written some things quite the best of their But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind, Who — But hey-day! What's this? Messieurs... | |
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There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common-sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best... 
