Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Woodberry's mind is well shown in the soundness and judgment of the study of Poe in the essay on Keats in the remarkable paper on the Byron centenary and in the sober admiration for Shelley shot through nearly all he has written. “The critical reach of Mr. In 1930 he was posthumously awarded one of the first three Frost Medals for lifetime achievement in poetry by the Poetry Society of America.

(May 12 1855 – January 2 1930) was an American literary critic and poet. LL. D.