Prose Sketches and Poems: Written in the Western Country (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Albert Pike

9780266449959: Prose Sketches and Poems: Written in the Western Country (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266449956 ISBN 13: 9780266449959

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Excerpt from Prose Sketches and Poems: Written in the Western Country

I have acquired, by wild and desolate life, a habit of looking steadily in upon my own mind, and of fathoming its resources and perhaps solitude has been a creator of egotism. Of this, the public will judge. By all whom I number as my friends, the faults of this book will be for given; and if there be in it no vatz's spiritus, those who knew me will. At least recognise it as the breathings of one Who has departed from among them - as the expression of his feeling, and as such they will love them. Fame is valueless to me, unless I can hear it breathed by the lips of those I love. To the world, therefore, and to my old Mother City, I bequeath my last gift. If unworthy of her, let her remember, that poor and weak though it be, the tribute of the heart is not to be despised.

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"Today this work has special interest for its two long narratives of Pike's 'Journeys in the Prairie' describing the vanished prairie lands. . . . Missouri Tourism Division, take note! "But I'm especially impressed with Pike's poetic skills, in ballads, lyrics, odes, narratives, dirges--in blank verse, Gaelic meters, Spenserian stanzas, heroic couplets and other forms. Pike surely deserves a place in anthologies of American poetry and prose for his sharp, colorful description. As a pioneer of Southwestern literature, he has written authentically and eloquently. Rediscovering his work is like finding a lost vein of New Mexican gold."--Charles Guenther