Contributions To The Edinburgh Review By Francis Jeffrey

Author : Francis Jeffrey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243411825
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Jeffrey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 2 of 3 But though a poet is thus likely to be a gentler critic of poetry than another, zmd, by having a finer sense of its beauties, to be better qualified for the most pleasing and important part of his office, there is another requi site in which we should be afraid he would generally be fhund wanting, especially in a work of the large and comprehensive nature of that now before us we mean, in absolute fairness and impartiality towards the different schools or styles of poetry which he may have occasion to estimate and compare. Even the most common and miscellaneous reader has a peculiar taste in this way and has generally erected for himself some obscure but exclusive standard of excellence, by which he measures the pretensions of all that come under his view. One man admires witty and satirical poetry, and sees no beauty in rural imagery or picturesque description; while another doats on Idyls and Pastorals, and will not allow the affairs of polite life to form a subject for verse. One is for simplicity and pathos; another for magnifi cence and splendour. One is devoted to the Muse of terror; another to that of love. Some are all for blood and battles, and some for music and moonlight some for emphatic sentiments, and some for melodious verses. Liven those whose taste is the least cxclusix c, hate u6 campbell - fair To all the schools or poetry. 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.