Grammarian’s Funeral : poem by Browning.
... But all the same, if one thinks it worth while to take the trouble, one can express the mathematician's delight in discovery or the grammarian's in grammatising or the engineer's in planning a bridge or a house. What about Browning's Grammarian's Funeral ? The reason why these subjects do not easily get into poetry is because they do not lend themselves to poetic handling, their substance being ...
... But all the same, if one thinks it worth while to take the trouble, one can express the mathematician's delight in discovery, or the grammarian's in grammatising or the engineer's in planning a bridge or a house. What about Browning's Grammarian's Funeral? The reason why these subjects do not easily get into poetry is because they do not lend themselves to poetic handling, their substance being ...
... But all the same if one thinks it worth while to take the trouble, one can express the mathematician's delight in discovery, or the grammarian's in grammatising or the engineer's in planning a bridge or a house. What about Browning's Grammarian's Funeral ? The reason why these subjects do not easily get into poetry is because they do not lend themselves to poetic handling, their substance being... the falling night Of death, a Cyclamen, a Crocus flower Of windy autumn when the winds all sweep The hosts away to death, where heap on heap The leaves are smouldering in a funeral wind." Aldous Huxley writes of Lawrence, "Of most other eminent people I have met I feel that at any rate I belong to the same species as they do. But this man has something different and ...
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