Author: Alexander Stewart

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Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781330910788

Excerpt from Bygone Memories: And Other Poems One of the last of the ever-delightful essays published by Richard Jeffries was an exposition of the variety of the colour yellow. Taking the flower of the common marigold, the skin of an orange, and a gold sovereign for starting points, and adding other illustrations as he proceeded, he showed that there was in that one colour a perfect arch of graded shades. If this be the case in the world of colour, and in a single colour of that world, how much more, if a Richard Jeffries were still here to do it, could variety be shown in the grading of poetry. Poetry depends for its very existence on elements which are subject to variety, and are themselves various. It is the expression of the differing moods, temperaments, and training of the poets themselves. It is the record of the ten thousand differing events in the history of individual life, home, and country. It is the joy or sorrow, the love or blight, of the singer, or of the age or people of whom he sings. It induces impressions from external nature and from passing life. 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.