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Poets and Novelists
December 30, 1875 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Poets and Novelists," by George Barnett Smith. Mr. Smith, however, has no eye for the niceties of diction, his own is often decidedly erratic, and he swallows everything whole. "And Burns, with pungent passionings set in his eyes," and "poor, proud Byron, sad as the grave and salt as life," Mr. Smith thinks those are "excellent touches." In discussing the "Romaunt of Margret" and "Isobel's Child," he might have found something to say about that unwholesome taste, so characteristic of his author, which found a pathos in playing tricks with the spelling of proper names.

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POETS & Novelists (Book); SMITH, George Barnett; POETS; NOVELISTS; SPEECH; BOOKS
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