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Excerpt from A Splendid Wreck and Other Poems
Pre free. HE lines on the following pages were written on occasions widely different, and the spirit which prompted the writer on those occasions was also very different. Now it is patriotism, then it is religion; now it is friendship, then it is filial love, and at all times we trust it was a good spirit. It may be Our fault, and if so we here make the confession, that we are not in love with that kind of poetry which seeks to shroud the sense in poetical drapery for the purpose of seeming to be poetical, therefore the stanzas will be found to be plain, and for the most part the sense conspicuous. We have derived it from the ancient Greek literature that every creation of the imagination, irrespective of its_ form, verse or prose, literature or art, sculpture or painting, was called poetic. This. Conception pre vails now in Continental Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
