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Example sentences for "other poets"

  • In several other poems in this volume he recurs to the practice of his romances, Scandinavianizes where the tendency of other poets would be to mediævalize.

  • Johnson said: "His translations of Northern and Welsh Poetry deserve praise: the imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved, but the language is unlike the language of other poets.

  • The first period of Stedman's poetic life produced little save colorless, passionless lyrics, the echoes of a wide reading in other poets.

  • Exquisite work it often was, but there was no experience in it, no depth of life, no color of any soil save that of the dream-world of other poets.

  • The very faults of the poet serve as arguments that he was a poet--a poet born, not a poet made from study of other poets.

  • The specialization and differentiation of our latter ages of science and culture is less marked in him than in other poets.

  • It is other poets, other experiences, the past, the schools, the forms, that speak through them.

  • It is not to the point to urge that this is not the method or aim of other poets; that others have used the fixed forms, and found them plastic and vital in their hands.

  • Your talent in expounding Homer is not an art, acquired by system and method--otherwise it would have been applicable to other poets besides.

  • Questions of Sokrates to him--How happens it that you cannot talk equally upon other poets?

  • Homer may be the best of all poets: but he is still only one of those who exercise the poetic art, and he must necessarily talk about the same subjects as other poets.

  • In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.

  • There are, perhaps, some incidents that might be spared, as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage; but the general system makes gradual advances, and the end of the play is the end of expectation.

  • If other poets of our time show more intellectual strength than he, are they, perchance, given sometimes to adulterating their poetry with ratiocination and didactic preachments such as were better left to the proseman?

  • The two specially Homeric qualities—those, indeed, which set Homer apart from all other poets—are eagerness and dignity.

  • If other poets of our time can reach a finer frenzy than he and give it voice with a more melodious throat, are they, perchance, apt to forget that “eloquence is heard while poetry is overheard”?

  • There are in the Eclogues notices of other poets of the district, whose friendship he enjoyed or whose jealousy he excited.

  • Other poets, however, have painted Marlowe's associates as villains of far deeper dye.

  • As an explanation for inspiration, the theory recurs in verse of other poets.

  • In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.

  • The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabricks of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

  • Meanwhile the promptings of his muse slackening for a long interval--an experience that has happened in the lives of other poets--he turned to prose, and to the controversial side of prose.

  • Our object is the same as Mr. Arnold's; not to decry Wordsworth, but to ascertain his proper place in relation to other poets.

  • It is he who has rendered it necessary, in justice to other poets, to enquire with accuracy, what is the amount of powerful work to be found in Wordsworth; and this cannot be done without careful and judicial scrutiny.

  • Love is by Cowley, as by other poets, expressed metaphorically by flame and fire; and that which is true of real fire is said of love, or figurative fire, the same word in the same sentence retaining both significations.

  • This might be true, or more nearly true, of other poets of the seventeenth century.

  • Great numbers of other poets appear in the pages of Martial, Statius, and Pliny, but they need not be named.

  • As far as other poets go he might never have read their works.

  • And this is what makes even his love-poems cold in comparison with those of other poets.

  • There are perhaps some incidents that might be spared, as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage; but the general system makes gradual advances, and the end of the play is the end of expectation.

  • We have seen how Dryden, reversing the habit of other poets, succeeded in expressing his personality not in poetry which was his vocation, but in prose which was the amusement of his leisure hours.

  • Other poets, Keats for instance, or Tennyson, or the older poets like Dante and Homer, might compare ghosts flying from an enchanter like leaves flying before the wind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    other animal; other articles; other artists; other bird; other branches; other breeds; other chiefs; other colonies; other course; other employments; other gentlemen; other goods; other grain; other human; other kind; other matters; other orders; other poets; other races; other respects; other substance; other symptoms; other talk; other work; other world; other writers