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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Edward Dowden

Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden

Born: May 3, 1843

Died: April 4, 1913 (aged 69)

Bio: Edward Dowden, was an Irish critic and poet.

Known for:

The French Revolution And English Literature (1879)
New studies in literature (1895)
Puritan and Anglican (1900)
Transcripts and studies (1888)

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