THOMAS EARLE WELBY (1881–1933)
Swinburne: A Critical Study (1914)
"Good judgment, excellent taste, lucidity . . . phrases and passages of rare insight." (Athenæum)
"A charming book, which reveals its author as a man of fine scholarship and taste and an excellent critic of poetry." (Daily Telegraph)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924013556661/page/n5/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/swinburnecritica00welbuoft/page/n5/mode/2up
A Popular History Of English Poetry (1924)
"This book has been written for a public which knows English poetry chiefly through anthologies. Its aim is to provide that public, not with facts and dates, except in so far as they are necessary to an understanding of the subject, but with an outline of the development of English poetry and with impressions of the genius of individual poets. As little as possible has been said of characteristics common to, or supposed to be common to, groups and schools; for what matters ultimately is no formula, war-cry or tendency, but the genius of each writer." (Preface)
https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.18904/page/n7/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryof0000welb/page/n5/mode/2up
Arthur Symons (1925)
"IT is not as the most considerable poet of his generation, for he is not quite that, nor is it as its finest critic, though he is that, but as a writer unique in his by now almost completely realised ambition that I propose to deal with Mr. Arthur Symons. There is nothing in his work, or in the man as I know him, to suggest that he ever condescended to the vulgarity of competition ; and in writing of him I beg to be excused from attempts to justify treatment of his writings on this scale by claiming for him any particular place among his contemporaries in this or that department of literature. So far as I can gather, few judges would, to-day, place him so high as a poet as I should, and few would deny him pre-eminence as a critic ; but I am not much concerned to convert those who, as I think, undervalue his poetry, or to point to corroboration when I applaud his criticism. What I am anxious to do is to secure consideration of his work as a whole, and, through that, recognition of an achievement which, be it at any particular point greater or less than I take it to be, is assuredly without true contemporary parallel." (A Preliminary View)
https://archive.org/details/arthursymons029979mbp/page/n11/mode/2up
Figs From Thistles (1925)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102395446
The Silver Treasury Of English Lyrics (1925)
"Not a collection of the second-best of our poetry. It is a collection of the best, so far as that is not already available in Palgrave's Golden treasury." (Note)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006606724
Thomas Earle Welby Bibliography
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