TY - JOUR AU1 - Peschmann, Hermann AB - REVIEWS OF BOOKS last, poignant utterances of Desolation and Poets and Story-tellers. A Book of Critical Essays Recovery (1885—9) • From the title of this last by LORD DAVID CECIL. Constable. 10s. section Dr. Gardner's belief is clear: that The distinguishing characteristic of Lord Hopkins did not remain caught in that agony David Cecil's critical writings is what may be of self-mistrust of the Carrion Comfort sonnet;called an accomplished simplicity, an Addi- that he was able to look out and back on his sonian urbanity and grace. There is nothing 'winter world' of 'now done darkness'. The provocative or belligerent in his judgements; end, except for his threefold dying cry, 'I am they are put forward with that blend of sound happy', was neither serene nor restful; but, like reasoning and genuine humility that betokens his loved Herbert (cf. The Pulley), rest was not the true scholar. For Lord David wears his something this priest-poet (that was ever the learning with an easy lightness. He is, one feels, order in which he saw his vocations) either most at home in the eighteenth century, as in expected or hoped for. his essay on Thomas Gray (an epitome of his longer TI - Poets and Story-tellers JF - English DO - 10.1093/english/7.42.296 DA - 1949-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/poets-and-story-tellers-Ekoq9g13J7 SP - 296 EP - 297 VL - 7 IS - 42 DP - DeepDyve ER -