Richard Porson on Southey’s Thalaba: One of those poems “which will be read when Homer and Virgil are forgotten, but not till then.”
Commonplace Book, 1934-2012 (Pressed Wafer, 2015) by Daniel Aaron.
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village explainer
He [Ezra Pound] was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
—Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Harcourt Brace, NY, 1933. p. 246)
—Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Harcourt Brace, NY, 1933. p. 246)
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