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This little volume would make upon the general reader a claim for his consideration of the authors whose work it represents by selection. The selection, as every one such, is made according to an individual taste. But any reader who will take the trouble of comparing it with the entire works of these poets will value it as an interesting and very serviceable anthology. And the hope is that he will be induced to proceed thus far.
A general word is required from some other pen than that of the editor, in order that the reader may have the direction of a friend and a point of view which is in some manner impartial; a word which at the same time shall both indicate the nature of this particular collection and cover the character of the whole field from which the editor has so lovingly gathered these flowers.
Samuel Johnson endangered the reputation of our seventeenth-century singers - the long line from Donne to Herbert, in range from complexity to simplicity - by denominating them "metaphysical"; and this precarious repute has militated not a little against their rightful popularity. He had, no doubt, his own qualification of the term: but the unfortunate fact is that, in all matters of human interest, men seize exclusively upon terms, particularly when they become encased in inverted commas, and do not interest themselves in mental foot-notes. But this term has always been entirely misleading. Give a dog a bad name, and hang him. Give a poet a wrong name, and you damn him. He escapes from this Inferno after generations, to have no designation - the fortunate fact which Providence establishes.
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This little volume would make upon the general reader a claim for his consideration of the authors whose work it represents by selection. The selection, as every one such, is made according to an individual taste. But any reader who will take the trouble of comparing it with the entire works of these poets will value it as an interesting and very serviceable anthology. And the hope is that he will be induced to proceed thus far.
A general word is required from some other pen than that of the editor, in order that the reader may have the direction of a friend and a point of view which is in some manner impartial; a word which at the same time shall both indicate the nature of this particular collection and cover the character of the whole field from which the editor has so lovingly gathered these flowers.
Samuel Johnson endangered the reputation of our seventeenth-century singers - the long line from Donne to Herbert, in range from complexity to simplicity - by denominating them "metaphysical"; and this precarious repute has militated not a little against their rightful popularity. He had, no doubt, his own qualification of the term: but the unfortunate fact is that, in all matters of human interest, men seize exclusively upon terms, particularly when they become encased in inverted commas, and do not interest themselves in mental foot-notes. But this term has always been entirely misleading. Give a dog a bad name, and hang him. Give a poet a wrong name, and you damn him. He escapes from this Inferno after generations, to have no designation - the fortunate fact which Providence establishes.
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