Word: credo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However badly his description may fit some of poetry's modern navel-contem-platers, Britain's Poet Laureate at least has remained true to his credo. From the day in 1902 when his first slim volume of Salt-Water Ballads rolled off a London press, John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have...
...Warner once ended an essay called The Cult of Power with these words: "The only reply to the cult of individual or racial power and violence is the actual practice of general justice, mercy, brotherhood and understanding." The trouble with Men of Stones as a fictional elaboration of this credo is that it reaches the intelligence without ever finding the way to the heart...