Shorter English Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Shorter English Poems England´s place in the world been earned by faithful work of many generations. "Through Wisdom is an house builded; and by Understanding it is established; and by Knowledge shall the chambers thereof be filled with all precious and pleasant riches." The Literature of each nation shows the form of thought within the outer body of its History; and only by coming fairly into contact with this inner life of our country can we know through what wisdom our house was built, approach to the understanding by which it was established, and in so doing acquire the knowledge that shall fill it with true riches. Attention is being now paid to that study of the outside world which is the province of Science. It is exalted in orations, subsidised by governments, because it adds material wealth to the state. Honour and help be to it, let us rather say, because it trains the minds of men to faithful observation and pure search for truth, because it sets them to increase wisdom and power by drawing light from the mind of God revealed in His creation. No man, no people, lives by bread alone; and it is no wise statecraft that seeks only to be get a commonwealth of bakers. The mistake of those who encourage a one-sided culture - no matter which the side - brings its revenges. Already we are suffering in many ways from our too long neglect of the fit means of strengthening all that is best in a nation´s character which would be found in a right study of its Literature. I mean no mere learning by rote of dates and names and second-hand opinions; nor even cultivation of a fine sense of the beauty of detached thoughts, when a reader looks chiefly to these. Right study of our Literature is a firm endeavour to get from the soul of England in her writers an interpretation of her work among the nations, by generous apprehension of the best aims of the best of our forerunners; and it leads to the raising of our hearts, in national fellowship, by the desire to at least try how far we can aid the life of our own day with aim as high, with words as apt, with work as strenuous. The purpose of this work is to provide a compact and comprehensive library of English thought, from the earliest times to our own day. The arrangement will be chronological. Characteristics of our Celtic and Teutonic forefathers; the days of transition, after the Conquest, through the time of Chaucer, with the rising spirit of the Reformation, to the England of Elizabeth; the conflicts of opinion by which England advanced from the days of her first Stuart king to the Revolution of 1688; and the course of thought and action by which we have been brought to the England of to-day - not without illustration of the character of our own time, by selections from the works of our chief living writers, where we have leave to introduce them; - all these should be found here represented in such order as to make this Library of use to the student of the History and Literature of our country. Each piece of prose or verse will be set in a brief narrative showing when and by whom it was written, as far as that can be told, with here and there such information as may serve to secure fuller enjoyment of some part of the mind of a people "not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." So Milton described his countrymen, and the readers of these volumes will see that he spoke truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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