Simple Love and Occasional Pieces in Verse
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Excerpt from Simple Love and Occasional Pieces in Verse: With a Notice of Audubon If I were asked what prompted me to appear in print, 1 would be at a loss for the sufficient motive. There might have been an incentive in fame, had it not been beyond my grasp; in gain, but such admits of no reasonable expectation. In an age so practical, when polite literature, and poetry especially, are at fault, the question may be fairly stated, to what uses may the poet be put. His function may be purely negative. It has occurred to me, however, that surely there must be something in the man so singled out as to be made, at times, the butt of folly and the target of the giddy. Following upon bis decay there likewise comes the enquiry, has not the last poet gone; is not his harp unstrung; is his "a vanished hand," when once his touch evoked such keen response, "And woke to ecstasy the living lyre." Verse is but a form of art; it is as likely that the public taste has turned from this to other forms; to music, painting, sculpture and the stage, which furnish pictures ready made, or draw upon emotions nearer to the human envelope, with their effects of sound, of light and color, and of sheer actuality. There is no reason, after all, why Poetry should not be the most useful of these Arts in the respect that its master-thoughts are most convenient, most easily at hand, and may, with greater force and pith be made "To point a moral, or adorn a tale;" - or may sustain, in fine, when it has quickened, the ideal. 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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