Word: deevers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intention in attempting to convey no more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no poet who is less open to the charge of repeating himself." In Danny Deever, as in dozens of other ballads, "there is no single word or phrase which calls too much attention to itself, or which is not there for the total effect." Besides a talent for the ballad, Kipling had, to an unusual degree, the talent for occasional verse. "Good epigrams in English...