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compared her work favorably to "sweet, homely poetry", which he likened to a sweet little tune on a fiddle, whereas Swarth's "deep, full poetry" was like hearing
Beethoven played by a full orchestra. Again, especially her sonnets were praised. An overview article in
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Swarth initially wrote French poetry, her debut was published in 1879. She then switched to writing Dutch poetry, her first book in that language published in 1883, which she continued doing most of her life.
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distraction or a bore since she found many different ways and forms of expressing both the initial sentiment and its recollection. Swarth and her poetry figure in
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