Editorial Echoes
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150438509
Paperback|9781150438509
Out of Stock
Overview
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... THE POETRY OF MR. MOODY. Every two or three years, from some quarter of the critical horizon there issue trumpetings of praise which herald the advent of a new singer of songs. A bright star has swum into the ken of some watcher upon the battlements, and the discovery is proclaimed to the world with much pomp of rhetorical eulogy. The number of new poets who have thus been discovered during the past quarter-century is considerable, but most of them have shared the fate of the nova known to astronomers, and their magnitude has rapidly become dimmed. We have often envied the enthusiasm that could find so much to praise in these new interpreters of nature and human life, but have felt ourselves sorrowfully compelled to stand outside the chorus, and to mar its harmonies by the injection of certain discordant notes of caution and temperate restraint. A book of poetry must exhibit very great qualities indeed to constitute an event in literature, or to set its writer among the enduring poets of his age. In the memory of men now in their middle or advancing years there have been only two such events in English poetry--the appearance of Mr. Swinburne's 'Poems and Ballads' in 1866 and of the ' Poems' of Rossetti in 1870. Tested by these touchstones, ' The Love Sonnets of Proteus, ' and 'The City of Dreadful Night, ' the books of Mr. Watson and Mr. Kipling and Mr. Phillips have been phenomena of only secondary significance. Yet the writers of all1 these books, and other writers as well, have been hailed as new luminaries of the first rank, have been praised in-terms that one would hesitate to apply to Arnold or Tennyson, and have been made, as far as indiscriminate eulogy could make them;, the literary fashion of their respective hours. Praiseworthy they doubtless are.
| ISBN-13 | 9781150438509 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1150438509 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Pages | 142 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
