A Poet´s Cabinet
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Poet´s Cabinet: Being Passages, Mainly Poetical, From the Works of George Lansing Raymond Cyclopedias of quotations are many and various, and yet each may have a particular value that fully justifies its existence. The editor may have collected standard quotations, in which case his compilation possesses mainly the character of a reference work, giving the golden thoughts of the race in that mintage of artistic expression which has been stamped with approval by the masters of literature and accepted as sterling currency by the people. Such a work requires wide and accurate knowledge in its editor, but this alone; indeed the less literary discrimination he has the better it may be for a book recording confessedly the judgments of the men of the past whose endorsement of particular forms of expression has caused their incorporation into literature. The standards for constructing a work of this sort are identical with those of dictionary-making. Again, there is an order of cyclopedias of quotations in which the editor assumes the function of a connoisseur. He selects from accepted passages those whose form and substance meet with his special approval, and he adds other passages less known which in his opinion seem worthy of a similar incorporation into literature. If his taste and ability are such as to justify his purpose, the work has itself something of the character of the literature with which it deals. It is a true anthology, valuable for inspiration as well as for reference and research. A third form of the cyclopedia of quotations is that in which these are confined to one author, the purpose being to present, in representative extracts from his works, an ordered conspectus of his views, either direct or implicit, on life or nature or art or whatever subject it be upon which he has contributed to the world thoughts of enduring value. Such a work is of a higher class than not only a general dictionary of quotations, but also a general anthology. 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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