The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Russell Lowell

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ISBN 10 : 0259419397 ISBN 13 : 9780259419396

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The present Cambridge Edition of Mr. Lowell spoems contains, substantially in the order established by the aathor, the poems included by him not long before his death in the definitive Riverside Edition of his writings, and in addition the small group contained in theL ast Poems collected by his literary executor, Mr. Charles Eliot Norton. In the brief Prefatory Note to the four volumes of his Poems in the Riverside Edition, Mr. LoweU said: There are a great many pieces in these volumes, especially in the first of them, which I would gladly suppress or put into the Coventry of smaller print in an appendix. But ilka mon maun dree his weird, and the avenging litera scripta manet is that of the over-hasty author. Owing to the unjust distinction made by the law between literary and other property, most of what I published prematurely has lost the protection of copyright, and is reprinted by others against my will. I cannot shake off the burthen of my early indiscretions if I would. The best way, perhaps, is to accept with silent contrition the consequences of ones own mistakes, and I have, after much hesitation, consented to the reprinting of the old editions without excision. 1must confess, however, that I have attained this pitch of self-sacrifice only by compulsion, and should have greatly preferred to increase the value of this collection by lessening its bulk. The judicious reader will, I fear, distinguish only too easily what I should wish, in parliamentary phrase, to be taken as read. As we grow older, we grow the more willing to say, asP etrarca in Lander sF entameron says to Boccaccio, We neither of us are such poets as we thought ourselves when we were younger. The Editor of this volume has not felt at liberty either to add poems left by the author in the deepening obscurity of old magazines, or to follow the probable judgment of Mr. Lowell in reducing
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0259419397
• ISBN 13: 9780259419396
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
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