Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Special Offer | $0.00

Join Today And Start a 30-Day Free Trial and Get Exclusive Member Benefits to Access Millions Books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Walt Whitman's Poetry (Classic Reprint): A Study a Selection

Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes
4.9/5 (14658 ratings)
Read Now Download Now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description:Excerpt from Walt Whitman's Poetry: A Study A Selection Bsay Simultaneously, fascinated and repelled. Had Whitman been a lesser man, I should have read his poetry, admired its beauties, laughed at its eccentricities, shuddered at its crudities, and then laid the book aside and gone on to something else. But the very fact that his per sonality seemed to be ever wrestling with and striving to impose itself upon mine, made me determine at all costs to understand him, to discover the secret sources of his poetry, to wrest from him the key to his heart and mind. There are many ways in which we may set to work to interpret an author in whom we happen to be interested. The best way is, I think, to study his writings, half-attentively, half-broodingly, until some of the more salient of their characteristics have detached themselves from the rest and impressed themselves strongly on our minds, - such characteristics, let us say, as are bound to disclose themselves, sooner or later, to every thoughtful reader. Using these as our base of operations, we may then advance inferentially into the unknown country which we wish to explore, taking care to secure our communications as we proceed, by verifying from our author's writings every conclusion that we reach. We must beware (let me say in passing) of allowing ourselves to be deluded by the semblance of logic which our work ofresearch will inevitably wear. The movement of a poet's thought and feeling is always more or less circular, its starting-post and its goal being that primary attitude towards things-in general which constitutes his idiosyncrasy in the region of his inner life. The different characteristics of his mind, so far as it reveals itself in his poetry, are all vitally interconnected; and though we find it convenient and even necessary to regard one of these as cause and others as effects, we know well enough (or at any rate we ought to know) that this is a mere matter of notation, and that what we are really trying to do is to Show that a secret and quasi organic logic gives unity and coherence to the whole of the poet's work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walt Whitman's Poetry (Classic Reprint): A Study a Selection. To get started finding Walt Whitman's Poetry (Classic Reprint): A Study a Selection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
—
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
—
ISBN
1331323452

Walt Whitman's Poetry (Classic Reprint): A Study a Selection

Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: Excerpt from Walt Whitman's Poetry: A Study A Selection Bsay Simultaneously, fascinated and repelled. Had Whitman been a lesser man, I should have read his poetry, admired its beauties, laughed at its eccentricities, shuddered at its crudities, and then laid the book aside and gone on to something else. But the very fact that his per sonality seemed to be ever wrestling with and striving to impose itself upon mine, made me determine at all costs to understand him, to discover the secret sources of his poetry, to wrest from him the key to his heart and mind. There are many ways in which we may set to work to interpret an author in whom we happen to be interested. The best way is, I think, to study his writings, half-attentively, half-broodingly, until some of the more salient of their characteristics have detached themselves from the rest and impressed themselves strongly on our minds, - such characteristics, let us say, as are bound to disclose themselves, sooner or later, to every thoughtful reader. Using these as our base of operations, we may then advance inferentially into the unknown country which we wish to explore, taking care to secure our communications as we proceed, by verifying from our author's writings every conclusion that we reach. We must beware (let me say in passing) of allowing ourselves to be deluded by the semblance of logic which our work ofresearch will inevitably wear. The movement of a poet's thought and feeling is always more or less circular, its starting-post and its goal being that primary attitude towards things-in general which constitutes his idiosyncrasy in the region of his inner life. The different characteristics of his mind, so far as it reveals itself in his poetry, are all vitally interconnected; and though we find it convenient and even necessary to regard one of these as cause and others as effects, we know well enough (or at any rate we ought to know) that this is a mere matter of notation, and that what we are really trying to do is to Show that a secret and quasi organic logic gives unity and coherence to the whole of the poet's work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walt Whitman's Poetry (Classic Reprint): A Study a Selection. To get started finding Walt Whitman's Poetry (Classic Reprint): A Study a Selection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
—
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
—
ISBN
1331323452

More Books

The Creed of Buddha, by the Author of "The Creed of Christ" [I. E. Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes] (1911) [Leather Bound]

The Creed of Buddha, by the Author of "The Creed of Christ" [I. E. Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes] (1911) [Leather Bound]

4.4/5 (1,282,506 ratings)

**REPRINT** Holmes, Edmond Gore Alexander, 1850-1936. The Creed of Buddha, by the author of "The Creed of Christ" i. e. Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes New York, John Lane Company; London,$bJohn Lane, 1911, c1908.**REPRINT**

**REPRINT** Holmes, Edmond Gore Alexander, 1850-1936. The Creed of Buddha, by the author of "The Creed of Christ" i. e. Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes New York, John Lane Company; London,$bJohn Lane, 1911, c1908.**REPRINT**

4.2/5 (4,466 ratings)

The Creed of Buddha (Classic Reprint) by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (2015-06-04)

The Creed of Buddha (Classic Reprint) by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (2015-06-04)

4.1/5 (1,751 ratings)

All Is One: A Plea for the Higher Pantheism

All Is One: A Plea for the Higher Pantheism

4.5/5 (743 ratings)

The Creed of Buddha 1919

The Creed of Buddha 1919

4/5 (647 ratings)

What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular

What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular

4/5 (647 ratings)

The problem of the soul; a tract for teachers, being an attempt to determine what limits, if any there are to the transforming influence of education

The problem of the soul; a tract for teachers, being an attempt to determine what limits, if any there are to the transforming influence of education

4.7/5 (647 ratings)

The Silence of Love (Classic Reprint)

The Silence of Love (Classic Reprint)

4.6/5 (647 ratings)

What Is Philosophy

What Is Philosophy

4.9/5 (647 ratings)
loader