Poems & Ballads (First Series)

part is sacrificed to any other, any subordinate figure mishandled or

neglected or distorted or effaced for the sake of the predominant and central person. And, though this has nothing or less than nothing to do with any question of poetic merit or demerit, of dramatic success or unsuccess, I will add that I took as much care and pains as though I had been writing or compiling a his...