In Good Company. Coulson Kernahan
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Coulson Kernahan
In Good Company
Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066216399
Table of Contents
THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON AS THE “OGRE OF THE ‘ATHENÆUM’”
WHY THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON PUBLISHED ONLY TWO BOOKS
ONE ASPECT OF THE MANY-SIDEDNESS OF THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON
THE LAST DAYS OF THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON
SOME OPINIONS OF MR. KERNAHAN’S PUBLISHED WORK
IN GOOD COMPANY
A. C. SWINBURNE
Had some old Pagan slept a thousand years,
To wake to-day, and stretching to the stars
Gaunt arms of longing, called on Venus, Mars,
June and Jove, Apollo and his peers;
And heard, for answer, echoing from the spheres,
“Thy gods are gone: the gods of old are dead.
It is by Christ thou shalt be comforted,
The pitying God who wipes away all tears.”
Such answer had there come, deaf ears, in scorn
Had turned the Pagan, and deaf ears turn we
To other voices, on this April morn,
Since he who sang the sunrise and the sea
Shall sing no more. Deaf