Edward Dowden Quotes

• Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

  Edward Dowden

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  "Shakespeare A Critical Study Of His Mind And Art".

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• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  Edward Dowden

  Littles, Cynicism, Poet

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• Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

  Edward Dowden

  Tragedy, Villain

  Edward Dowden (1905). “Robert Browning”

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• Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.

  Edward Dowden

  Summer, Spring, Moon

  Edward Dowden (1877). “Poems”

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