It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if … - Algernon Charles Swinburne

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It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if any poet or other literary creature could really be "killed off by one critique" or many, the sooner he was so despatched the better; a sentiment in which I for one humbly but heartily concur.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet.

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Alternative Names: Algernon Swinburne • Algernon Charles Swiburne

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The thorns he spares when the rose is taken; The rocks are left when he wastes the plain;
The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken,
These remain.

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun
His day's work and his night's work are undone:
And lo, between the nightfall and the light,
He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

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