Excerpt from The Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: Joanna Baillie to Jean Ingelow Has befallen them. They have been described as the best ever written by a woman - and this praise (which is far from inordinate) they probably deserve. They Show considerable invention; the blank verse is not Without dignity, and the heroines are grace fully drawn. It is not, however, by her dramas that Joanna Baillie will live. It is by her lyrics. Where is the woman-poet of our days who could write such a rousing, hearty lyric as ...
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Excerpt from The Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: Joanna Baillie to Jean Ingelow Has befallen them. They have been described as the best ever written by a woman - and this praise (which is far from inordinate) they probably deserve. They Show considerable invention; the blank verse is not Without dignity, and the heroines are grace fully drawn. It is not, however, by her dramas that Joanna Baillie will live. It is by her lyrics. Where is the woman-poet of our days who could write such a rousing, hearty lyric as The Chough and Crow to roost are gone, the song of the outlaw from Orra, Act III., Scene i. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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