Grand Royal Dowager

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“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Not to these shores she came! this other Thrace,
Environ barbarous to the royal Attic;
How could her delicate dirge run democratic,
Delivered in a cloudless boundless public place
To an inordinate race?”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)