Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Longer Narrative Poems
When we turn to the poems to study them a little with a view to a finer, more critical enjoy ment later, we must perceive, it would seem, first a general likeness and then the many differences, some in form and subject, and some of the manner of handling, which is apt to be the thing that gives us an idea of the character of the poet. These things are points of knowledge, certainly, and knowledge only of poetry is not the great thing true enjoyment is the really important matter. But such knowledge as this may be made the foundation of enjoyment, because it is pretty sure to bring out in our reading things which we shall enjoy and which we might otherwise neglect.
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