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Example sentences for "great poet"

  • During Burns's life it was reserved for William Pitt to recognize his place as a great poet; the more cautious critics of the North were satisfied to endorse him as a rustic prodigy, and brought upon themselves a share of his satire.

  • If he had not been a great poet he would have gained credit as a painstaking and laborious man of letters.

  • Just turned twenty-four he "found himself famous," a great poet, a rising statesman.

  • He is at least endeavouring to be what Sir Henry Taylor says the great poet must be, a philosopher as well as an artist.

  • He had certainly an ear for verse and a gift for making it, and if his equipment of ideas had been proportionate he would have been a great poet.

  • Had Clough written much in the strain of these pieces he might have had some title to the name of a great poet.

  • A small volume of pieces judiciously chosen would convince the reader that he was listening to the voice of a true and even a great poet; but his sense of this is lost in the flatness and weariness of the five superfluous volumes.

  • We are left in the dark to know whether we have lost a great poet or only a loyalist; whether the "certain person" was a parliamentary enrage, or only utterly reckless of a collection of poems "bigger than Dr.

  • Spenser has suffered a criticism from Mr. Campbell, who, a great poet himself, has otherwise done ample justice to his ancient master.

  • It must be glorious to be a great poet, to weave one's dreams into wonderful words that live in men's hearts forever.

  • Master, I would rather be a great poet than be the Emperor of Rome.

  • Great poet as Chaucer was, he was not quite free from the literary weakness of his time.

  • Pope was not a great poet; it has been doubted whether he was a poet at all.

  • Dryden was not so much a great poet, as a solid thinker, with a splendid mastery of expression, who used his energetic verse as a vehicle for political argument and satire.

  • I am just like the young man who kept on dreaming that he was a great poet, until he made the disagreeable discovery that in order to be a great poet it is absolutely necessary to write great poems.

  • But although Chaucer was a great poet, we know very little about his life.

  • It was in this way that Skelton was made laureate, first by Oxford, then by Louvain in Belgium, and thirdly by Cambridge, so that in his day he was considered a learned man and a great poet.

  • Dryden was a great poet, and he dominated his own age and the age to come.

  • Dryden was a great poet, but he could create nothing, he had to have given him ideas upon which to work.

  • Swinburne, besides being a great poet, had a distinct gift of creating melodious verse; but many parodists have shown that they also had this gift without being able to write poetry.

  • A man may have a great gift for the use of these forms and not be a great poet, just as he may be a great poet and fall flat when they encumber him.

  • No one, for example, to-day regards Jean Ingelow as a great poet, but the anthologists who select her When Sparrows Build or High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, justly accept these poems as poetry.

  • Yet George Moore, a great poet in prose himself, tells us in his Avowals that the greatness of English genius does not appear in its prose, but in its poetry, i.

  • It is impossible to call Marlowe a great dramatist, and the attempts that have been made to make him out to be such remind one of the attempts that have been made to call Molière a great poet.

  • Had Brooke always written with this force and directness he would have been a great poet.

  • But it is impossible to call him a great poet even in his own difficult class.

  • The passage must be given, otherwise the abstract of the poem would be incomplete; but I cannot help thinking it the worst anti-climax ever fallen into by a great poet.

  • Somebody should write a burlesque of the enormities in Dante's poem, and invent some Rabelaesque punishment for a great poet's pride and presumption.

  • Nobody who opened the Commedia for the first time at this fantastical image would suppose the author was a great poet, or expect the tremendous passage that ensues!

  • Manilius is not a great poet, but he treats, not without success, a subject new to Roman poetry, and shows himself to be a man of original power of mind and of serious purpose.

  • It is evident, however, that Varro was not a great poet, and the loss of his other poems is little to be regretted.

  • In modern times his greatness has been called in question, and some scholars have even gone so far as to deny that he was a great poet at all.

  • His vocabulary was an incredibly small one--the smallest, beyond a doubt, that ever a great poet had to deal with.

  • But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

  • A great novelist is one who can penetrate and describe the feelings of others; a great poet is one who can invest his own with beauty and proclaim them to the world.

  • But what if Addison's foible was that of being considered a great poet?


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