A Selection From The Great English Poets With An Essay On The Reading Of Poetry

Author : Sherwin Cody
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ISBN 13 : 9781331119234
Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book A Selection From the Great English Poets, With an Essay on the Reading of Poetry written by Sherwin Cody and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Selection From the Great English Poets, With an Essay on the Reading of Poetry: Chosen and Arranged, With a Series of Introductions This volume has been prepared from a different point of view from that which governed the preceding volumes in this series. To most of us poetry comes to have a very personal relation. It is solace in our sorrow, inspiration in our days of darkness, friends when we are most alone, and withal it brings with it poignant, indescribable pleasure out of bitterness, that makes us feel that life is worth living, love worth loving, the struggle onward worth its pain; and to the ardent solitary it is much more than all these - a whole world of blended emotions that cannot be described. Poetry has been this to me, and so a great deal of personal affection has gone into this volume. In the face of such personal devotion, as to a living friend, analysis of the technique of the art seems out of place. My own pleasure, however, has come from comparatively few poems. When I first began to study poetry I selected certain poems which seemed to me instinct with the revelation of life. I marked them heavily with pencil or pen, and when I wanted the personal pleasure of poetry in its most exquisite form I read over one of these marked poems. I felt that a poem did not have its full value to me till I had read it a dozen or forty or a hundred times. So I have never had time to read much poetry, nor do I think that the average reader ought to attempt to do so. 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.