Author: Students of the University of Liverpool

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Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781331029021

Excerpt from Primitiae: Essays in English Literature The many-sidedness of Blake's genius appears plainly from an examination of the literature that during recent years has gathered about his work. For instance, in his History of English Prosody, Professor Saintsbury thus sums up his presentment of the case for Blake as metrist: 'No poet since Shakespeare seems to me to have had such an instinctive mastery of the great principle of perfected English prosody - foot-composition with free substitution; and, in the second place, Blake shows the way to the progress in this line made by his younger contemporaries and followers, the poets of the nineteenth century proper.... That Blake left plenty of half-done work - work not even half-done in many cases - is a mere historical fact. But his half-done work has the root of the matter in it; and his done work has root and stem and blossom and flower and fruit all at once, as if it grew in the gardens of Alcinous.' 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.