The number of versifiers makes it hard, indeed, for the poet to win recognition.
Very few poets, or even versifiers (fiercer they than poets are), would have continued to show their virgin numbers to a friend so candid, as Tennyson did.
Compared with the love-poetry of elder poets, these Rispetti are what the artificial epigrams of Callimachus or the Anacreontics of the Alexandrian versifiers were to the ardent stanzas of Sappho, the impassioned scolia of Pindar.
Ariosto was but second-rate among the Latin versifiers of his century.
They prove that aristocratic versifiers at this period were adopting the style of the people, and adding the pungency of brief poetic treatment to episodes suggested by novelle.
It is not needful to pass in review the many versifiers who treated the old themes of chivalrous love with meritorious conventional facility.
It was there that a common type of speech was formed, which, when the burghers of Central Italy began to emulate the versifiers of Palermo, furnished them with an established style.
The ephemeralversifiers were examples of deficient "wit," and not of the unhappy consequences of genuine poetic power.
He engrafts upon his recommendation of a "charitable silence," an invective against the inferior versifiers who, in their old age, have not discovered that they are superannuated.
Every rhyme is correct, which is more than can be claimed for a great deal of the poesy perpetrated by older and more pretentious versifiers on this side of the Atlantic.
We have among us scores of writers blest with beautiful thoughts and attractive fluency, yet the number of preciseversifiers may be counted on one's fingers.
Among provincial towns, Toulouse seems to have been remarkably rich in indifferentversifiers and critics.
Several versifiers had described William turning thousands to flight by his single prowess, and dyeing the Boyne with Irish blood.
Our early clerical versifiers set themselves rather to give rhythmical renderings to the romances and chronicles of their time.
How many are the excellent versifiers whose reputation is based wholly upon a solitary effusion!
Immensely flattered by being suddenly lifted to the status of a priesthood, all the budding versifiers of France, who a generation earlier would have withered into insignificance, expanded into affluent and profuse blossom.
There existed, in 1595, as great a crowd ofversifiers as had been called forth fifty years earlier by the splendour of the Pleiade.
But these two indifferentversifiers form a school, and lead hundreds of followers after them.
There is only one explanation of this fact: it is that the art of the society in which these versifiers lived is not a serious, important matter of life, but is a mere amusement.
The French versifiers had by this time, perhaps, become less numerous, though several names in the same style of amatory song do some credit to their age.
A few may be selected from the numerous versifiers under the sons of Henry II.
Tiraboschi supposes Latin versifiers to have been common in Italy.
The number of versifierswhom Italy produced in the sixteenth century was immensely great.
There is more pleasure, more sense of sympathy with another mind, in the perusal even of Gascoyne or Edwards, than in that of many French and Italian versifiers whom their contemporaries extolled.
The Latin versifiers of the thirteenth century were numerous, but generally very indifferent.
Every thought was to be worked out in new terms, since the scanty precedents of earlier versifiers did not supply them.
From the number of versifiers in France, and the popularity of Ronsard and his school, we might have expected a larger harvest of critics.
Science in poetry, as exemplified by the strophes of Martins Junior, is too often but rhymed harangue, even as the early Brazilian versifiers presented us with rhymed fruit-baskets, aviaries and geographies.
Issa's rustic, personal voice was not a style to be copied, even if the city poets had wished to do so, and Haiku seems to have fallen into the hands of formula versifiers during the mid- nineteenth century.
Another clever device of the early Japanese versifiers was the use of words with double meanings.
Consequently these versifiers affected to languish and adore, wove conceits and complained of cruelty, in the fashion of Vaucluse.
With the school of Bembo he has nothing in common except that Platonism which the versifiers of the time affected as a fashion, but which had a real meaning for his creative genius.
Yet borrowed phrases and the constraint of metre impeded spontaneity, and these feeble versifiers could hardly create in modes of the antique.
The silly ideas and emotions about which versifiers get excited are often an index to their own moral and intellectual failing, as well as their aesthetic deficiency.
Men's souls are starving to be fed with poetry and the versifiers polish and file and chisel verses on themes that interest no one.
Many modernversifiers identify poetry with ornament and figures, and it is impossible for them to write a poem without a succession of figures.
What sad figures the versifiers of unimportant conceits make when confronted with the great poets who use their intellect.
We might be curious to learn, with all these notions of the suitable, the weighty, the order of enditing, and the colours often awry, whether these versifiers had really any settled principles of criticism.
At a later period, the days of Dryden and Pope, our versifiers were continually renovating his humour and his more elegant fictions.
By negligible American versifiers one too often finds Burns lauded as one whom "such purity inspires," [Footnote: A.
Vile versifiers were invariably accused of having vile personal lives, whereas the poet who basked in the light of fame was conceded, without investigation, to "exult in virtue's pure ethereal flame.
In this pedantry and use of “aureate terms” the Scottish versifierswent even beyond their brethren of the south.
Crude paraphrases of the Psalms, based on the Genevan Psalter, appeared from the hands of various versifiers and were used generally in the churches of England and Scotland.
The Puritan editors of this first attempt at American psalmody cared no more for poetic effect than did their brother versifiers across the waters.
The three reverend versifiers who turned out such questionable poetry are known to have been writers of clear, scholarly, and vigorous prose.
Champagne fired the sallies of the wits and versifiers whom the Duchess of Maine gathered around her at Sceaux, and stimulated the madness which seized upon the whole of Paris at the bidding of the financier Law.
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