The Echo, Or, Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation. - Couverture souple

Hoffman, Charles Fenno

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 127585950X ISBN 13 : 9781275859500

Editeur : Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Mv Deak Sir, You may remember some three or four years since having asked me for a list of the various signatures under which my anonymous verses had appeared in different American periodicals during the last twenty years. You are perhaps aware, also, of the disparaging remarks which your free and flattering use, in The Poetry of A merica, of the verses thus patiently collected by you, has called out in some quarters. I have often regretted that I permitted those effusions (most of which had long since answered the casual purpose for which they were written) to be thus exhumed: regretted it, not from any particular sensibility to the critical dicta by which they have been assailed ;but simply because, like many a sanguine yet indolent person originally conscious of rather vivid poetic aspirations, I had, from my boyhood upward, from early manhood onward 11 lived along in the hope of doing something or other in the way of a poem that my countrymen would not unwillingly let live: and because (while thus probably much overrating poetic powers in reserve) I was unwilling that these fugitive pieces should fix a character upon my writings it might be difficult to supersede by any subsequent effort in a higher order of composition. That fanciful regret, if not abated, has, with the considerations from which it sprung, been swallowed up lately by a reality which I deem of more imperious moment than any thing affecting mere literary reputation. One of those British reviews, which, in the absence of an international copyright, do the thinking of this country upon literary matters, and which, you know, are circulated so widely and are of such authority here that it is idle for an American author to refuse to plead to any indictment they may prefer, has recently done me the honor, amid a confused mass of indiscriminate accusations against my countrymen at large, to sele
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 127585950X
• ISBN 13: 9781275859500
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 50