Author : William Lisle Bowles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666347336
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)
Book Synopsis The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) by : William Lisle Bowles
Download or read book The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by William Lisle Bowles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2 Poetry is an age in flower; and the poetry of the nineteenth century has been a more gorgeous and more tropical flower, because warmer suns have shone on it, warmer winds blown on it, and larger rains watered its roots. Indeed, it is almost a wonder that the first half, at least, and the middle of the eighteenth century, produced so much and such good poetry. That age was, on the whole, a stagnant and uninteresting one. There was nothing very deeply to rouse the passions and imaginations of men. There was, indeed, the usual amount of political squabbles; but when a Bolingbroke was the most eloquent and admired of parliamentary orators, what moral grandeur could be expected? There was a Jacobite faction, perpetually undermining and sometimes breaking out into Open rebellion; but their enthusiasm, save in Scotland, was mingled with no poetical elements, although there cer tainly it produced many exquisite strains of ballad 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.
