"A Test Of Poetry

A Test of Poetry (1932) is a comparative study of poetry from Homer to the twentieth century. By giving several translations of the same passage from Homer an elegy of Ovid and lines from Herrick which read like an adaptation of Ovid or a fifteenth century poem about a cock and a recent poem about chickens and so on a means for judging the values of poetic writing is established. The book also has a comparative chronological chart including a summary of critical views.