By Ways in book Land Short Essays On Literary Subjects
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He has usually the educa- tion for the first, and the leisure for the other two. He generally has culture, he always has breeding, he often has gallantry ; and, with these endowments, the poetry par excellence of the peerage is well within his reach. Considerable, indeed, would be the loss to English literature if by any chance the productions of our noble poets should disappear. Apart from Byron, who, of course, stands a head and shoulders above all his brethren, there is that Henry, Earl of S...urrey, who ranks highest of all poets between Chaucer and Spenser, and who did so much to popularize in England both blank verse and the sonnet. But for Surrey both those accomplishments, since so popular among us, might have been long in establishing them- Peers and Poetry. 103 selves in English poetry. The other poet- peers of the sixteenth century were admittedly not of the first class. Yet Buckhurst's share in ' The Mirror for Magistrates ' and in the tragedy of 'Gorboduc' was of undoubted value, both intrinsic and relative; and the world of letters would not willingly let die the work, slight as it was, of Lord Vaux, the Earls of Essex and Oxford, the Earls of Ancrum and Stirling, Lord Brooke, and Francis Bacon, although the great Chancellor wrote but one lyric of any moment the well- known lines upon ' The World.
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