Author: James Beattie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781451019902

Excerpt from The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius: And Other Poems Edwiln is not the portrait of an individual, such as the Wanderer, or the Solitary, in'words worth's excursion; there is no draniatic sub stance in the form of the minstrel. He is rather the romance of early life personified and this constitutes the true charm of the poem. Whoever has any associations of innocence or happiness with the images of rural life, who ever can look back to a period in which he was conscious of the indefinite feelings which belong to the fancy, cannot fail of being arrested in the descriptions and sentiments of the First Part of the minstrel: while a man of phi losophical habitswill feel a superior degree of pleasure in tracing the natural progress of the mind in the supposed case of a youth' like Edwin. The father, too, Will be apt to fancy him his son, and the maiden her lover. By thus Operating on the best sympathies of our nature, the poem acquires a power of impressing the imagination. 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.