The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.


Oxford Book of English Verse, Introduction


The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because...

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because...

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because...

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because...