The Way of Poetry, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Way of Poetry, Vol. 3<br><br>If you look at the list of poets at the end of this book, you will see that while some of the poems that you are reading were written by men who, like Shakespeare, were born nearly four hundred years ago, others were written by men who are living now. A sage once said, 'There is no new thing under the sun,' and yet it is one of the many wonders that we learn from poetry that life, although it goes on from age to age, concerned with the same emotions and seeing the same natural beauty in the world, is always splendidly new. Shakespeare could see and hear -<br><br>'Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,<br>Sermons in stone, and good in everything,'<br><br>and then one poet after another following him could be aware of the same thing, and yet, because he did strictly perceive it for himself, he could make it as new an experience for himself, and for us when we read his poem, as though no one in the world had ever perceived it before.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.