Poems

Poems

Copyright, 1917, 1918, by Daniel E. Hudson; Copyright, 1917, 1918, by The Sisters of Mercy; Copyright, 1917, 1919, by The Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle in the State of New York. Copyright, 1919, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All Rights Reserved Printed in U. S. A. This edition of Theodore Maynards poems represents the authors own selection of such of his published verse as he wishes included in a permanent collection. With few omissions, it represents the contents of the three volumes issued in Great Britain under the titles, Laughs and Whifts of Song, 1915; Drums of Defeat, 1917; Folly, 1918, none of which has hitherto been published in this country. In the case of any poet who has caught and held our recollection, there is generally a particular piece of work which remains in our mind, not as the crown, but as the key. And ever since I saw in The New Witness some lines called A Song of Colours, by Theodore Maynard, they have remained to me as a sort of simplification, or permanent element, of the rest of the poets writings; and I have felt him especially as a poet of colour. They are not by any means the best of his lines. They are direct, as is appropriate to a ballad; and they have none of the fine whimsicality or the frank humour to be found elsewhere in his work. Among these others the choice is hard: but I should say that the finest poetry as such is to be found in the images, and even in the very title, of The Worlds Miser: and even more in the poem called Apocalypse. In this latter the poet imagines a new world which shall be supernatural in the strongest sense of the word; that of being more vivid and positive than the natural; and not (as it is so often imagined) more tenuous and void. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 55079
Author: Maynard, Theodore
Release Date: Jul 9, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English