Elizabeth Hardwick
(1916–2007) Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
“A thousand forms and passions glow
Upon the world-wide canvas.”
The Ancient And Modern Muses
Context: A thousand forms and passions glow
Upon the world-wide canvas. So
With larger scope our art we ply;
And if the crown be harder won,
Diviner rays around it run,
With strains of fuller harmony.
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