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Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Dowden

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden was an Irish critic, professor, and poet.

Irish - Critic | May 3, 1843 - April 4, 1913

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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

Edward Dowden

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

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. — © Edward Dowden

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden

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

Edward Dowden

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

Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden

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