Read more
Excerpt from Ardours and Endurances: Also a Faun's Holiday Poems and Phantasies
English poetry is not a rhythm of sound, but a rhythm of ideas, and the ¿ow of attention stresses varying qualities of words and cadence) which determines its beauty is insepar ably connected with the thought; for each of them is a judgment of identity, or a judgment of relation, or an expression of relation, and not a thing of mere empty sound. He who would think of it as a pleasing arrangement of vocal sounds has missed all chance of ever understand ing its meaning. There awaits him only the barren generalities of a foreign prosody, tedious, pedantic, fruitless. And he will ¿ounder cease lessly amid the scattered timbers of its iambuses, spondees, dactyls, tribrachs, never reaching the firm ground of truth.
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.
