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...Poems. Miss Lowell treats as a skilled gardener does a rosebush he is transplanting: what the world sees ?leaf, thorn, flower???she deftly appraises; what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic...
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