 | James Russell Lowell - 1908 - 184 oldal
...its delicious humor and sterling criticism. For example, the lines on Poe will always be quoted : " There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,...Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge." And so the sketch of Hawthorne : " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly... | |
 | 1909 - 456 oldal
...his inspiration from Dickens' " Barnaby Rudge." Lowell, in his " Fable for Critics," writes : " Then comes Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge." Wherever Poe did get the idea, and his own explanation is plausible enough, " The Raven " is an excellent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1886 - 590 oldal
...amount, but in quality it was peculiar. Yet Mr. Lowell's criticism is not far from the truth — ' Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.' A lover of poetry for its own sake, he protested against the didactic tendencies of American verse.... | |
 | 1925 - 456 oldal
...talk about poetic form. It was Lowell, I think, — James Russell — who said of Poe that he talked like a book of iambs and pentameters In a way to make people of common-sense damn meters. And the "New Poetry" in the same way has talked itself moribund chiefly concerning... | |
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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... 
