I don't much like 'Vitai Lampada' (even Newbolt himself came to dislike it, describing it as a 'Frankenstein's monster that I created'), but 'He Fell Among Thieves' never fails to make me shed a manly tear. I wouldn't describe Newbolt as a poet of 'imperial bombast' -- imperial melancholy, more like.
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ninetydegrees
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on 2011-01-07 05:56 pm (UTC)