NO POET OVER 30
"Tt is a pity that, v.e think of most young itoete as old men," writes 31r. James Douglas in the "Star," ''The old Tennyson, the old Browning, the old Swinburne, tho old J Rossetti, tho old 'Wordsworth are all caricatures.' Byron, Koala, mid Shelley wore lnck.v. They died More they could caricature their own youth. - Even Shakespeare, the bald, middlo-aged burgew, i.s a caricature. No post should be painted or photographed after thirty."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7
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77NO POET OVER 30 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7
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