The Worlds Best Poetry Volume 8 National Spirit

Author : Richard le Gallienne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243483532
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The World's Best Poetry written by Richard le Gallienne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Best Poetry: Descriptive, Narrative; What's the Use of Poetry; Volumes 7 and 8; National Spirit, the Study of Poetry If the magazine editors of the world would only bind themselves to publish no verse except the best, and, failing to obtain a contemporary sup ply of the best, would fill their spare corners of space with reprints of the old fine things, I am convinced that they would do a great deal toward rectifying this widespread misconception of an art which, far from being trivial and superficial, is, of all the arts. The most serious and most vi tally human. I am not saying that all poetry is for all readers. There is a section of poetry which has been called poet's poetr which, of necessity, can appeal only to those in whom the sense of beauty and verbal exquisiteness has be come specialized. Spenser and Keats, for ex ample, are poets of the rainbow. For the average reader their poems are the luxuries rather than the necessities of Iiterature, - though, in making a distinction so rough and ready, it must not be forgotten that: beauty, happily, is becoming more am] more a general necessity; nor must it be for gotten. Either, that rainbows. Refined and remote as they are, belong also to the realities. It is the reality of poetry that I wish, if possible, to bringxii what '8' the use OF 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.