Note 36 — YOUTH AND AGE (continued 6)
Reading edition
We can, however, agree that the language of all three poets, Shelley, Sappho, and Simonides, is exquisitely beautiful. Professor Naylor points out that it is a characteristic of the early Greek poets to compress a description into a series of epithets full of expression, without connecting words—compare Tennyson (“The Passing of Arthur”).
But it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea.