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Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832–1916) was an Irish clergyman, chaplain, and writer known for his religious and literary works. Initially an Anglican priest, he became a prominent preacher in London but later shifted towards Unitarianism due to his liberal theological views. Brooke was also an accomplished literary critic, particularly noted for his work on Romantic poets such as in "The Life of Frederick W. Robertson" and "Theology in the English Poets". His "Primer of English Literature" remains a significant contribution to the study of English literature.
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Introduction Many years have passed by since, delivering the Inaugural Lecture of the Irish Literary Society in London, I advocated as one of its chief aims the recasting into modern form and in literary English of the old Irish legends, preserving the atmosphere of the original tales as much as possible, but clearing them from repetitions, redundant expressions, idioms interesting in Irish but...
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CHAPTER I BROWNING AND TENNYSON Parnassus, Apollo's mount, has two peaks, and on these, for sixty years, from 1830 to 1890, two poets sat, till their right to these lofty peaks became unchallenged. Beneath them, during these years, on the lower knolls of the mount of song, many new poets sang; with diverse instruments, on various subjects, and in manifold ways. They had their listeners; the Muses...
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