Excerpt from Judith: An Old English Epic Fragment MY earlier editing of this poem provided considerable material which I have been able to use with little modifi cation in the present work. On the other hand, as the plan of this book is different, and as new Opinions on cer tain points had in the mean time been broached, and needed to be dealt with, the new edition is not a mere condensation of the earlier. In one respect, however, and that perhaps the most essential, I have been true to my first conception I have ...
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Excerpt from Judith: An Old English Epic Fragment MY earlier editing of this poem provided considerable material which I have been able to use with little modifi cation in the present work. On the other hand, as the plan of this book is different, and as new Opinions on cer tain points had in the mean time been broached, and needed to be dealt with, the new edition is not a mere condensation of the earlier. In one respect, however, and that perhaps the most essential, I have been true to my first conception I have endeavored to present the poem, fragmentary as it is, as a work of art, being persuaded that unless philological scholarship tends to exalt life, and the nobler aspects which life has assumed, or under which it has been conceived, the less we have of it the better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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