Imagination And Fancy Or Selections From The English Poets Illustrative Of Those First Requisites Of Their Art With Markings Of The Best Passages Critical Notices Of The Writers And An Essay In Answer To The Question What Is Poetry

Author : Leigh Hunt
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ISBN 13 : 9781331455257
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Fancy Or Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art written by Leigh Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Imagination and Fancy or Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art: With Marking of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What Is Poetry?" This book is intended for all lovers of poetry and the sister arts, but more especially for those of the most poetical sort, and most especially for the youngest and the oldest: for as the former may incline to it for informations sake, the latter will perhaps not refuse it their good-will for the sake of old favourites. The Editor has often wished for such a book himself; and as nobody will make it for him, he has made it for others. It was suggested by the approbation which the readers of a periodical work bestowed on some extracts from the poets, commented, and marked with italics, on a principle of co-perusal, as though the Editor were reading the passages in their company. Those readers wished to have more such extracts; and here, if they are still in the mind, they now possess them. The remarks on one of the poems that formed a portion of the extracts (the Eve of Saint Agnes), are repeated in the present volume. All the rest of the matter contributed by him is new. He does not expect, of course, that every reader will agree with the preferences of particular lines or passages, intimated by the italics. 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.