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Francis Ledwidge
Gordon, David | October 19, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on the poet Francis Ledwidge. In recent literary history Ledwidge has attained a reputation as a simple rustic poet. Ledwidge was a nature poet. Ledwidge was a surpassingly expert and delicate manipulator of words. Ledwidge had a profound and scholarly knowledge of language. But Ledwidge had one outstanding defect--lack of ease and fluency. This should perhaps be called the defect of Ledwidge's quality. For Ledwidge's diction and his thought were both complex, and he lacked, except in his very best moments, the ability to convey a complex image in a single, golden line.

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LEDWIDGE, Francis; POETS; AUTHORS; POETRY; LITERATURE; FICTION
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