perfervid
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Lili Anolik makes the case in her perfervid introduction: “The letters are everything you could want” and often “profound” and “frequently brilliant, invariably amusing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Playing his part, Owen carried poetry into battle: the strange, futuristic work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the perfervid verse of Swinburne, each with their own mortal relationships to the sea.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2018
It takes its title from the perfervid 1912 lyric that thrust its winsome author to the center of the literary scene.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
But free silver, as articulated in the perfervid “Cross of Gold” speech, had been the making of Bryan as a national politician, and he couldn’t bear to let it go.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2017
But it is too doubtful whether she would appreciate the eloquent but somewhat perfervid hysterical dithyrambs of the late Algernon Charles Swinburne and his followers.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
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