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Austin Dobson.
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In the following review, Symonds praises At the Sign of the Lyre, noting graceful lyricism of Dobson's poetry.
Only a churl, or one indifferent to what is delicate in literature, could find wor...
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In the following essay, Lipscomb examines the influence of the Latin poetry of Horace on Dobson's work.
Long may you live such songs to make, And I to listen while you wake, With art too long d...
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In the following essay, Robinson discusses Dobson's use of the rondeau poetic form.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick.
—Edgar Lee Masters
In ...
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In the following essay, Henley compares Dobson to Horace and eighteenth-century English poets.
His style has distinction, elegance, urbanity, precision, an exquisite clarity. Of its kind it is as near...
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In the following essay, Matthews provides a critical overview of Dobson's work and reputation as a poet.
As Mr. Lang told us in his sympathetic paper on M. Théodore de Banville, some liter...
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In the following essay, Symons praises Dobson's work, but notes that his poetry employing earlier poetic forms and subjects is superior to his modern works.
The qualities of Mr Austin Dobson&#x...
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In the following essay, Sampson comments that A Bookman's Budget is not what the reader might expect, but he finds the volume excellent nonetheless.
Mr. Austin Dobson and Mr. E. V. Lucas may no...
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In the following essay, Woodberry discusses Dobson 's volume of the works of Addison and Steele.
Addison lies under more obligations to happy fortune than any other Englishman of high literary ...
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In the following essay, Noyes contends that Dobson's technical merit as a poet is overrated, but his ability to evoke strong emotions is admirable and often overlooked.
It was customary, at one...
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In the following essay, Ellis contrasts Dobson's life with the idyllic world he depicted in his poetry.
You love, my Friend, with me, I think, That Age of Lustre and of Link; Of Chelsea China a...
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In the following essay, Gosse argues that Dobson's great popularity as a poet has led to less serious critical attention to his work.
In his sound and catholic Popular History of English Poetry...
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Critical Essay by John Addington Symonds
