Major Adjectives in English Poetry From Wyatt to Auden

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Excerpt from Major Adjectives in English PoetryCertainly much of tabulation as an end in itself is to be deplored. Lists of adjectives or question marks or metrical schemes are as far from the poems which share them as are many of the standards of value which accept or deny the poetry in the poems. Quantity and quality wilt when long separated. But a danger often present, on the other hand, is the establishing Of quality not upon the determination, or even upon the disregard, but upon the assumption, of quantity. As C. C. Fries says, in introducing his American English eral impression is the critical danger. I should like to borrow his intro duction for my own, in smaller and different terms....