Quest and Vision: Essays in Life and Literature (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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R. Russell lowell has used an admirable phrase about Wordsworth which is worthy of repro duction; he has spoken of his 'almost irritating respectability.' Why respect ability on the part of a poet should be irritating, it is difi'icult to say, unless it be that the conventional tradition of poets is precisely the reverse of respectable. Poets, from Homer downward, have been more or less at variance with average society. They have not belonged to the sober, tax-paying, owe-no-man-anything type of humanity. Respectable citizens have.

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