Fables and Satires
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ever they recognize its worth, but which he in his wisdom preserved. Sir Ronald Ross has done well to publish these verses, and among them will be found nothing that can be confused with the work of that School of Poetry which, largely by its self-advertisement, has been so conspicuous since the outbreak of the Great War. As a poet he belongs assuredly to the right wing, and to-day his verse might be called reactionary, and this is very far from being a slur. He may not possess "that large utterance of the early gods," but he is not obsessed with the state of his own nerves, nor does he look on the writing of verse as an exercise in introspection. It is not his delight to veil meaning in an inspissated mist of deliberately perverted words, nor to sacrifice his clarity of communication to a syncopated rhythm that can be distinguished by the writer alone, and which, if one is bold enough to attempt it, will convey oniy a headache to the reader. In spite of several instances of the printed word being tortured into a shape unnatural and unnecessary, he tries to give words their right uses, and that by itself will earn the gratitude of lovers of the English language. It is not the part of a critic only to find fault; a far
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