He adopted one medium after another, fascinated at first by new formal possibilities and soon distracted into perfervid polemic. |
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He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any. |
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He was a perfervid nationalist who was jailed for his beliefs. |
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If only his style were not so perfervid, so riddled with italics, so defensive — even surly — about his status, in relation to Milford, as the tenacious underdog. |
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