Six Famous Living Poets

Author : Coulson Kernahan
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ISBN 13 : 9781331258308
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Six Famous Living Poets written by Coulson Kernahan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Six Famous Living Poets: Introductory Studies, Illustrated By, Quotation and Comment Dear Miss Klickmann, You bade me pen these appreciations, and you read each as written. When you thought I had done well, you said so more than generously, thereby heartening me, in later chapters, to do my best. When you thought I had done less well, or ill, you said so as frankly, thereby inducing me to strike out what was worst. As to you I owe not only the book's inception, but much invaluable criticism, will you accept the Dedication? If any chapter, or section of a chapter gave you, in the reading, half as much pleasure as I found in "The Flower-Patch among the Hills," "Between the Larch Woods and the Weir," and "The Trail of the Ragged Robin," I am content. As you can confirm what I say, may I add - though for other eyes than yours - that "criticism," in any scholarly or academic sense, these articles never set out to be. They are no more than Introductory Studies for the general reader, and penned, admittedly, from a personal standpoint. Rambling, discursive and gossipy as they are, my hope is that they are not altogether without freshness of outlook and illustration; for though I confess to taking pleasure only in appreciation, and none in depreciation, I have not for that reason refrained from indicating what seems to me - wrongly perhaps, but at least sincerely and outspokenly - an occasional defect or weakness in the poems under consideration. But the intention of the book is to set the work of each poet in so attractive a light as to send my readers to study for themselves all that he has written. Were it not so, I should not have ventured to ask permission to quote so widely. 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.