My Commonplace Book (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Name: My Commonplace Book (Classic Reprint)
Author: James Thompson Hackett
ISBN: 9780428772956

James Thompson Hackett

9780428772956: My Commonplace Book (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0428772951 ISBN 13: 9780428772956

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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I compiled the book in 1917 (while the war was still raging), but through various long delays it was not published until September 1919. When I then saw it in print, I realized that I had made several errors of judgment. For example, the longest by far Of the quotations was John Payne's Rime of Redemption. I thought Payne was remembered only as a translator and was forgotten as a minor poet. To my surprise I learnt that he was the object of a special cult, and that a John Payne Society had been actually formed in his lifetime I In any case, although the poem has merit, it was an error of judgment to include it in this book. I also saw that fragments from narrative poems are unsatisfactory, as in the case of Buchanan, that there was too much of Swinburne in the book, and that some other quotations were too long to justify their inclusion. For these and other reasons I have cut out some poems, few in number but occupying a disproportionate amount of space.

I could not do this when the second and third editions were issued. I was ill and away from my books and notes. Even if I had been well enough, I had not the material with me to replace the omitted pages, and, without this material, the book would have had to be set up again. However, I have now had it set up again, and this has given me the opportunity of revising and adding to it.

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