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Show In his latest poem, "Narcissus," Robert Bridges, the English poet laureate, lau-reate, has banished the comma en. tirely, so that a procession of adjectives ad-jectives may be -taken, at the reader's option, as separate qualities, or as qualifying each other. Thus one nay call his hero "almighty wondrous," or regard him as being both. llr. Bridges' principles of punctuation are not obvious. ob-vious. He loves the exclamation mark, using it five times in the 28 lines o! the poem, and sprinkles dashes abost with prodigality. He adopts the coloa and does not slight the interrogate mark, while using now and then a ffi stop. |