a fable for criticsの例文
- Ultimately, " A Fable for Critics " earned Lowell notoriety as a poet, once his name was revealed, though he did not significantly profit from its publication.
- Yes, lots of Lowell's critics are quite harsh ( and I hardly think " A Fable for Critics " is forgettable, but I'm a 19th century book nerd ).
- Fuller had angered fellow poet and critic James Russell Lowell when she reviewed his work, calling him " absolutely wanting in the true spirit and tone of poesy . . . his verse is satirical " A Fable for Critics ", first published in October 1848.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that, though Lowell had significant technical skill, his poetry " rather expresses his wish, his ambition, than the uncontrollable interior impulse which is the authentic mark of a new poem . . . and which is felt in the pervading tone, rather than in brilliant parts or lines . " Even his friend Richard Henry Dana Jr ., questioned Lowell's abilities, calling him " very clever, entertaining & good humored . . . but he is rather a trifler, after all . " In the twentieth century, poet Richard Armour dismissed Lowell, writing : " As a Harvard graduate and an editor for the " Atlantic Monthly ", it must have been difficult for Lowell to write like an illiterate oaf, but he succeeded . " The poet Amy Lowell featured her relative James Russell Lowell in her poem " A Critical Fable " ( 1922 ), the title mocking " A Fable for Critics ".
