Text-Book of Poetry
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Text-Book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith, and Thomson; With Sketches of the Authors Lives, Notes, and Glossaries; For Use in Schools and Classes There withal, except in a few cases, which are duly remarked in the notes, I have given entire poems; and this to the end that a sense of artistic completeness and harmony may be secretly quickened and fostered in the pupil´s mind. All, or nearly all, the pieces set forth in this collection are old, familiar, long-tried friends of mine: if I had not been in the habit of returning to them often, and conversing with them, for many, many years; and if I had not believed the verdure and freshness of them to be perennial, and such as no frequency of perusal can exhaust; I should not have admitted them: in a word, to my sense, "age cannot wither them, nor custom stale their infinite variety"; for I would fain have the volume so composed as to gather about itself "the fixed delights of house and home, Friendships that will not break, and love that cannot roam." It may be thought that some apology, or some explanation, is due from me for having filled so much of the volume with Wordsworth. On this point I can but say that the book contains no more of Wordsworth than I really want, and have long been in the habit of using more or less, in my own classes; nor any more than I think may bo generally used with good effect in a course of English studies. And I am thoroughly satisfied that, next after Shakespeare, Wordsworth is the best of all the English poets for such use; and this chiefly because he is apt to inspire a deeper, stronger, and more abiding enthusiasm. In my observation, no mind that has once rightly felt the touch of his hand ever shakes off or outgrows its power; nor can I think of any thing better which the school can do for young minds than to seize them with a life-long passion for him. Of the other authors and poems embraced in this volume, it may be enough to say that the consorting or grouping of them is by no means arbitrary. Strongly marked as the authors severally are with individual and characteristic traits, yet they naturally gravitate each to all, and all to each, by the force of mutual sympathy. To my sense, they are six highly congenial souls, and the more congenial for having each his original and independent strength. Thus the group affords a large variety of interest and attraction, while at the same time they all draw smoothly together under a common spirit, and to a common purpose; so that a right study of any one will serve to sharpen the student´s relish and deepen his enjoyment of all the others. As to what is here done in the way of notes and comments, perhaps the less said, the better. 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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