Excerpt from Poetical Works The curlew cries Over her laid down beside Death's lonely people: I think I have been chosen to write this Preface largely because I am known to hold theories which some people think new, and which several people know to be hostile to much that hitherto has been accepted as classic in English poetry; that is to say, I reverence Dante and Villon and Catullus; for Milton and Victor ianism and for the softness of the nineties I have different degrees of antipathy or even contempt. Mr. Elkin Mathews ...
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Excerpt from Poetical Works The curlew cries Over her laid down beside Death's lonely people: I think I have been chosen to write this Preface largely because I am known to hold theories which some people think new, and which several people know to be hostile to much that hitherto has been accepted as classic in English poetry; that is to say, I reverence Dante and Villon and Catullus; for Milton and Victor ianism and for the softness of the nineties I have different degrees of antipathy or even contempt. Mr. Elkin Mathews wanted, i think, some definite proof that Lionel Johnson was still respected by a generation, or, if you will, by a clique, of younger poets who scoff at most things of his time. Now Lionel Johnson cannot be shown to be in accord with our present doctrines and ambitions. His language is a bookish dialect, or rather it is not a dialect, it is a curial speech, and our aim is natural speech, the language as spoken. We desire the words of poetry to follow the natural order. We would write nothing that we might not say actually in life under emotion. Johnson's verse is full of inversions. 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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