According to Lionel S. Darby, one of the most exasperating habits of authors, from the binder’s point of view, is that of giving a long-worded title to short books. Books with narrow spines invariably have multisyllable titles.
How excellent, remarks Robert Lynd was the poetry written in the age of Shelley, when the ordinary Englishman looked on a poet as a kind of halfwit! In such an atmosphere it is only the genuine poets who persist.
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Southland Times, Issue 23610, 10 September 1938, Page 14
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