Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WELCOME FROM THE JOHNSON CLUB; TO WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pope came back from trojan wars once more Last Line: These are our claims to honour you as guest. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Courthope, William John (1842-1917) | ||||||||
WHEN POPE came back from Trojan wars once more, He found a Bard, to meet him on the shore, And hail his advent with a strain as clear As e'er was sung by BYRON or by FRERE. You, SIR, have travelled from no distant clime, Yet would JOHN GAY might welcome you in rhyme; And by some Fable, not too coldly penned, Teach how with judgment one may praise a Friend. There is no need that I should tell in words Your prowess from The Paradise of Birds; No need to show how surely you have traced The Life in Poetry, the Law in Taste; Or mark with what unwearied strength you wear The weight that WARTON found too great to bear. There is no need for this or that. My plan Is less to laud the Matter than the Man. This is my brief. We recognize in you The mind judicial, the untroubled view; The Critic who, without pedantic pose, Takes his firm foothold on the thing he knows; Who, free alike from passion and pretence, Holds the good rule of calm and common sense; And be the subject or perplexed or plain, Clear or confusing, is throughout urbane, Patient, persuasive, logical, precise, And only hard to vanity and vice. More I could add, but brevity is best; -- These are our claims to honour you as Guest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A GARDEN SONG by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON BEFORE SEDAN by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DORA VERSUS ROSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON GROWING GRAY by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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