John Drinkwater Quote

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

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John Drinkwater is the name of:

John Drinkwater Bethune (1762–1844), English officer and military historian
John Drinkwater (playwright) (1882–1937), English poet and dramatist
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851), pioneer in women's education in India
John Drinkwater (composer) (born 1957), English composer and technologist