TY  - JOUR
AB  - MR. Frederick Niven's recent references in these pages to the Canterbury Poets anthology of ballades and rondeaus suddenly reminded me that a rondeau of my own was printed in the little book. Although the year 1887, when the book, which is now rather difficult to pick up, appeared, is a long way off, I do not in the least feel like Methuselah. What, however, does lend a sense of the passing years is the change in literary taste, and the humpty‐dumptying by one generation of critics of the heroes of an older group. We have had a good opportunity of witnessing the process on a wholesale scale in the belittling of the Victorians, and Henley himself is a peculiarly ironic example of the process, for, having bludgeoned many literary reputations, his own has slumped, for the collected edition of his work which appeared a few years ago left the younger school of critics cold, while the influence of his rather truculent “young men” on the Scots Observer has faded.
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SN  - 0024-2535
DO  - 10.1108/eb011970
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb011970
AU  - MALCOLM BULLOCH JOHN
PY  - 1933
Y1  - 1933/01/01
TI  - Literary Circles of the 'Nineties
T2  - Library Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 145
EP  - 150
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -