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Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.
Alfred Lord Tennyson published "In Memoriam AHH," more than a hundred verses of elegy and sorrow for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
Alabados are usually sung with religious fervor, and many are extremely long with an indefinite number of verses.
Two of these nicknames developed notorious associations: Oliver Cromwell was known as Iron Noll , and the children's verses of Ambrose Philips ensured the everlasting fame of his nickname, Namby Pamby .
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