Vulgar words in Alfred Tennyson (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 496 ~ ~ ~
Rascals send me theirs per post from America, and I have more than once been knocked up out of bed to pay three or four shillings for books of which I can't get through one page, for of all books the most insipid reading is second-rate verse."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,232 ~ ~ ~
But this is almost a boyish idea, this idea that the true poet is the slave of the passions, and that the poet who dominates them has none, and is but a staid domestic animal, an ass browsing the common, as somebody has written about Wordsworth.