pathetic-grotesque

Updated: June 25, 2025

Two of the poems of Men and Women are pages tragic-grotesque and pathetic-grotesque from the history of religion.

Edward Dowden - Robert Browning

And their occasional efforts, their experiments in the half-kinds they affected, have a curious charm. English poetry would be undeniably poorer without the unearthly snatches of Beddoes, the exquisitely urbane verse-of-society of Praed, the pathetic-grotesque of Hood, even the stately tirades of Horne and Taylor.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)