 | Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association, William Peterfield Trent, Oliver Huckel, John Prentiss Poe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Letitia Humphreys Yonge Wrenshall - 1910 - 144 oldal
...witness for the defense, must also be called by the prosecution. In famous lines, he brought Poe along with his Raven like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge. Perhaps your well-to-do citizen, after a prosperous day and a good dinner, might be inclined, with... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1910 - 264 oldal
...witness for the defense, must also be called by the prosecution. In famous lines, he brought Poe along with his " Raven " like Barnaby Rudge : — Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge. Perhaps your well-to-do citizen, after a prosperous day and a good dinner, might be inclined, with... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1910 - 266 oldal
...witness for the defense, must also be called by the prosecution. In famous lines, he brought Poe along with his " Raven " like Barnaby Rudge : — Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge. Perhaps your well-to-do citizen, after a prosperous day and a good dinner, might be inclined, with... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1911 - 300 oldal
...— There comes Foe, 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, In a way to make people of common sense damn meters, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed... | |
 | Cleland Boyd McAfee - 1912 - 328 oldal
...and Poe. The shrewdest estimate of Poe that has ever been given us is in Lowell's Fable for Critics: "There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1912 - 196 oldal
...places. Some of his introductions are wittily made, as in the case of Edgar Allan Poe, for example "There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge." sparkles in style, so full is it of point and pun. It is too lengthy, however, and in places overemphasised.... | |
 | 1913 - 816 oldal
...Tennyson nor Poe need detain us long. It was Lowell who said that Poe, in his essays on versification, talks like a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, but common sense delights in the fact that, in the words of WE Henley, his was the only original note... | |
 | Lemuel Arthur Pittenger - 1914 - 306 oldal
...Poe is our only original genius in American Literature. Lowell wrote in his Fable for Critics: —• "There comes Poe with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge." Whatever judgments the various critics may give of Poe and his writings, they must all agree that he... | |
 | Margaret Sprague Carhart - 1917 - 532 oldal
...comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,0 Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge,0 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 of their kind, 165 But the heart... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1921 - 436 oldal
...we answer sufficiently well as subjects for satire." When Poe comes to the lines about himself, Here comes Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge — Three-fifths...a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make all men of common sense d. . . .n metres; Who has written some things far the best of their kind ;... | |
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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... 
