Sir Lewis Morris — a remark

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“Obscure poems, obscure in subject or in treatment, can never be poetry at all, can never awake a noble emotion, or stimulate the heart or the soul.”

Insisting that poetry should communicate strongly enough to move its reader · Essay, Some Thoughts on Modern Poetry (1891)

About Sir Lewis Morris

Sir Lewis Morris

23 January 1833–12 November 1907

In the landscape of Victorian poetry, few figures embodied the tensions between tradition and modernity, between Welsh heritage and English literary ambition, quite like Sir Lewis Morris. Born on a cold January morning in 1833 in Carmarthen, Wales, and dying in the twilight of the Edwardian era in 1907, Morris lived…

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