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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Discourse was deemed man's noblest attribute
Last Line: Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!
Subject(s): Magazines; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists
First Line: Discourse was deemed man's noblest attribute
Last Line: Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!
Subject(s): Magazines; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists
DISCOURSE was deemed Man's noblest attribute,
And written words the glory of his hand;
Then followed Printing with enlarged command
For thought -- dominion vast and absolute
For spreading truth, and making love expand.
Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute
Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit
The taste of this once-intellectual Land.
A backward movement surely have we here,
From manhood, -- back to childhood; for the age --
Back towards caverned life's first rude career.
Avaunt this vile abuse of pictured page!
Must eyes be all in all, the tongue and ear
Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!
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Other Poems of Interest...
THE CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS RISES GREATLY IN TIME OF WAR by EVE MERRIAM
IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS by MARGARET ATWOOD
METAMORPHOSES: 3. THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS by GEOFFREY HILL
THE INTERVIEW by DAVID IGNATOW
THE MORNING STAR by PRIMUS ST. JOHN
A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH