Présentation de l'éditeur
McFEE If memory, backed by the conventional criticism of twenty, thirty, and even forty years ago, be accepted as a guide, the invariable defect of youthful poetry was a lack of simplicity and a sense of direction. One had a tendency, it is remorsefully remembered now, to write of things of which one knew nothing and in a style entirely foreign to the experience and temper of ones age. This, no doubt, was to be expected of young people who lived, for the most part, very secluded lives without tele phones, automobiles, magazines, or cine mas ;their actual knowledge was micro scopic, and the demesnes of their fancy untraversed by the highroads of modern learning. It was the first duty of every guide, philosopher and friend of youth to warn them against writing of distant places and far-off romantic periods, in imitation of Scott and his school.
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