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“The test of a poem is that it should be memorable.”

A concise standard for judging poetry by its lasting effect on memory. · Essay on poetry

About Henry Newbolt

Henry Newbolt

6 June 1862–19 April 1938

Henry John Newbolt was born on 6 June 1862 at Bilston, Staffordshire, into a clerical and professional English family whose assumptions about duty, learning, faith, service, and social order would remain visible throughout his work. He became one of the most widely known poets of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain…

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