Poetry Common Life Consisting Selections by Platt J C Publisher Arnold Thomas (1 results)

Hardcover. Unrecorded 1st. xvi, 198 p.; 14 cm. Preface, p. [v]-xiii [reset in The miscellaneous works of Thomas Arnold (1845) p. 251-56] [title continues] which all have in common; and by this means to gratify and improve the teste of a large class, who seldom enjoy the pleasures which poetry is capable of affording. -- Includes 62 poems: Robert Bloomfield 1 - W.L. (William Lisle) Bowles 22 - Robert Burns 1 - Thomas Campbell 4 - George Crabbe 9 - Oliver Goldsmith 2 - W.S. Laidlaw 1 - Richard Oastler 1 - Robert Southey 12 - William Wordsworth 9 -- From the anonymous preface [by Thomas Arnold]: 'Our common temper, therefore, which is but too generally cold, and selfish, and worldly, is altogether unpoetical; but let any thing occur to put us above ourselves, any thing to awaken our devotion, our admiration, or our love--any danger to call forth our courage, any distress to awaken our pity, any great emergencyy to demand the sacrifice of our own comfort, or interest, or credit, for the sake of others, then we experience for the time a poetical temper, and poetical feelings; for the very essence of poetry is, that it exalts and ennobles us, and puts us into a higher state of mind than that which we are commonly living in.' (p. vii-viii) -- Front endpaper includes bookplates of Adolphus William Ward, master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1837-1924 - and - Cynthia & John Barnes, Hampton Lodge, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex -- Only an edition of 1844 'with a preface, by the late T. Arnold' is listed in WorldCat and Jisc. Good edgeworn quarter sheep. Foxing to outer leaves. UNIQUE COPY.