Philip Bourke Marston — a remark

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“There can be no doubt that, measuring by quality, not quantity, your place is in the very foremost rank of poets.”

Insisting that literary achievement should be judged by quality rather than abundance · Letter to Louise Chandler Moulton, quoted in Representative Women of New England

About Philip Bourke Marston

Philip Bourke Marston

13 August 1850–13 February 1887

Philip Bourke Marston was born in London on 13 August 1850 and died there on 13 February 1887, only thirty-six years later. His short life was shaped by an unusually concentrated mixture of literary privilege, physical disability, bereavement, emotional intensity, and artistic determination. During his lifetime he was…

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