The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (eBook)

 

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative

 

by Various

 
 
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 THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

    I Home: Friendship
    II Love
   III Sorrow and Consolation
    IV The Higher Life
     V Nature
    VI Fancy: Sentiment
   VII Descriptive: Narrative
  VIII National Spirit
    IX Tragedy: Humor
     X Poetical Quotations

 

Excerpt from The World's Best Poetry, Vol. 7: Descriptive Poems, Narrative Poems; Introductory Essay, What's the Use of Poetry?

There is no doubt that many - one might ai most say most - people are firmly convinced that they do not care for poetrv. They have no use for it, they tell you. Either it bores them, as a fantastic, highflown method of saying something that, to their way of thinking, could be better said in plain prose, or thev look upon it as the senti mental nonsense of the moonstruck and lovesick young, - a kind' of intellectual candy all very well for women and children, but of no value to grown men With the serious work of the world on their shoulders.

It is not at all difficult to account for, and, in deed, to sympathize with, this attitude. To begin With, of course, there is a large class outside our present consideration which does not care for poetry, simply because it does not care for any literature whatsoever. 

 

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