"Sonneteer" Quotes from Famous Books
... entitled Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems, The Father of the Forest and Other Poems, Lachrymae Musarum, and the series of sonnets upon Armenia, called The Purple East. There is in Watson nothing of the dramatist or of the epic writer. He is a lyrist and a sonneteer. He is also a critic, and might very conceivably be a satirist. But, whatever he is in writing, he is mainly and before all things an intellectual rather than an emotional poet; he is an artist rather than a seer. ... — Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker |