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...these qualities; indeed, his poems form the epitome of his character. He has never been known to write a poem to order; the nearest approach he made to doing so was after the War, when the Armistice seemed to call for an heroic ode. which he penned and called Brittannia Victrix, and which is hardly characteristic of his works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Octogenarian Laureate | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...ancients, writing critiques of John Milton and John Keats. He published a volume†† of new verses only a few weeks ago but there were no 'excited cable dispatches over the event. After the War, as became his station, he did deliver himself of an heroic ode, Brittannia Victrix, but a delicate bit called "Cheddar Pinks" in his new book is more characteristic. Indeed, so lost in pure artistry is Laureate Bridges that he quite forgot himself in a satiric bit addressed "To Catullus," referring to his immediate predecessors, Laureates Tennyson and Austin, as "those two pretty Laertes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loud Kipling | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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