The Poetical Works of William Shenstone
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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes Poets, viewed as to the quality of their writings, may be fairly divided into the following classes. There are, first, the equable, highly polished, and equal writers, like Pope - in whom there are neither great swellings nor great sinkings. There are, second, the fluctuating, uncertain, untutored, but divinely-inspired children of genius, like Shakespeare - whose faults, although not equal to their beauties, either in number or in degree, are yet sufficiently numerous, and sufficiently marked, to disturb somewhat the pleasure with which their writings are read. There is, thirdly, that class of gifted and cultured minds to which Milton belonged - whose beauties and blemishes are alike colossal; the former, however, out numbering the latter; and the latter springing more from the necessary limitations and inevitable weakness of the human mind itself, than from individual imperfection. There is, fourthly, a class of wealthy but careless minds, like Butler´s - who throw out masses of unpolished ore, mingled inseparably with much dross. There is, again, a school of writers, all whose writings, amidst their brilliance, truth, and depth, are affected with a species of morbid weakness, arid whose poetry reminds you of a fine voice cracked. And there is another class still, whose general works are inferior, but who, in hap pier moods, have thrown off some genuine inspirations, which reflect a lustre on their other writings, and secure themselves an imperishable name. 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.
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