During Burns's life it was reserved for William Pitt to recognize his place as a great poet; the more cautious critics of the North were satisfied to endorse him as a rustic prodigy, and brought upon themselves a share of his satire.
If he had not been a great poet he would have gained credit as a painstaking and laborious man of letters.
Just turned twenty-four he "found himself famous," a great poet, a rising statesman.
He is at least endeavouring to be what Sir Henry Taylor says the great poet must be, a philosopher as well as an artist.
He had certainly an ear for verse and a gift for making it, and if his equipment of ideas had been proportionate he would have been a great poet.
Had Clough written much in the strain of these pieces he might have had some title to the name of a great poet.
A small volume of pieces judiciously chosen would convince the reader that he was listening to the voice of a true and even a great poet; but his sense of this is lost in the flatness and weariness of the five superfluous volumes.
We are left in the dark to know whether we have lost a great poet or only a loyalist; whether the "certain person" was a parliamentary enrage, or only utterly reckless of a collection of poems "bigger than Dr.
Spenser has suffered a criticism from Mr. Campbell, who, a great poet himself, has otherwise done ample justice to his ancient master.
It must be glorious to be a great poet, to weave one's dreams into wonderful words that live in men's hearts forever.
Great poet as Chaucer was, he was not quite free from the literary weakness of his time.
Pope was not a great poet; it has been doubted whether he was a poet at all.
Dryden was not so much a great poet, as a solid thinker, with a splendid mastery of expression, who used his energetic verse as a vehicle for political argument and satire.
I am just like the young man who kept on dreaming that he was a great poet, until he made the disagreeable discovery that in order to be a great poet it is absolutely necessary to write great poems.
But although Chaucer was a great poet, we know very little about his life.
It was in this way that Skelton was made laureate, first by Oxford, then by Louvain in Belgium, and thirdly by Cambridge, so that in his day he was considered a learned man and a great poet.
Dryden was a great poet, and he dominated his own age and the age to come.
Dryden was a great poet, but he could create nothing, he had to have given him ideas upon which to work.
Swinburne, besides being a great poet, had a distinct gift of creating melodious verse; but many parodists have shown that they also had this gift without being able to write poetry.
A man may have a great gift for the use of these forms and not be a great poet, just as he may be a great poet and fall flat when they encumber him.
No one, for example, to-day regards Jean Ingelow as a great poet, but the anthologists who select her When Sparrows Build or High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, justly accept these poems as poetry.
Yet George Moore, a great poet in prose himself, tells us in his Avowals that the greatness of English genius does not appear in its prose, but in its poetry, i.
It is impossible to call Marlowe a great dramatist, and the attempts that have been made to make him out to be such remind one of the attempts that have been made to call Molière a great poet.
Had Brooke always written with this force and directness he would have been a great poet.
But it is impossible to call him a great poet even in his own difficult class.
The passage must be given, otherwise the abstract of the poem would be incomplete; but I cannot help thinking it the worst anti-climax ever fallen into by a great poet.
Somebody should write a burlesque of the enormities in Dante's poem, and invent some Rabelaesque punishment for a great poet's pride and presumption.
Nobody who opened the Commedia for the first time at this fantastical image would suppose the author was a great poet, or expect the tremendous passage that ensues!
Manilius is not a great poet, but he treats, not without success, a subject new to Roman poetry, and shows himself to be a man of original power of mind and of serious purpose.
It is evident, however, that Varro was not a great poet, and the loss of his other poems is little to be regretted.
In modern times his greatness has been called in question, and some scholars have even gone so far as to deny that he was a great poet at all.
His vocabulary was an incredibly small one--the smallest, beyond a doubt, that ever a great poet had to deal with.
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
A great novelist is one who can penetrate and describe the feelings of others; a great poet is one who can invest his own with beauty and proclaim them to the world.
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