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Word: sordello (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Premier MacDonald's very vague speech on the results of his mission Colonel Wedgwood remarked: "It reminded me gentlemen, of Robert Browning's Sordello, a poem which contained only two intelligible lines, the first and the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prayers & Atrocities | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

There can be but the one "Sordello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unpegged Pound | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Robert Browning's most obscure poem, Sordello, it was said that only one person understood it-the author-and that later even he forgot what it all meant. Whether or not the Cantos have a "meaning," Author Pound seems to realize that his readers may have the same difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unpegged Pound | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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