THE “AYES” HAVE IT
iri a “New Statesman" (London) j competition for “the best worst lines of English poetry taken preferably I from the great.” prizes were awarded | for quotations from Coleridge. Dry* ! den. Christina Rossetti. Francis Thompson. Blake. George Dai ley, Shenstone, and John Edwards. The judge was V. |S. Pritchett, whose own opinion is that the worst line in English poetry is by Shakespeare: “When first thine eye I j eyed.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 8
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73THE “AYES” HAVE IT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 8
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