Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Vision of Faery Land and Other Poems
The sea is full of poetry - how beautiful and how wonder ful he only whose home is upon it can properly know. The ship that moves over the waters, oftentimes solitary as a planet in space, is an object of high poetic interest and association, and its little world constitutes no unthoughtful study. The in?uence of the ocean over the imagination is evidenced in the superstitions of ruder mariners in all ages; and it was the ocean which first awakened and afterwards gave full tone and magnificence to the genius of Byron. Yet it is strange that among those who are seafarers by profession there should be so few poets. What sailor but Falconer among the bards of England? In the Navy of the United States we have had a Cooper; for, though prosaic the form, the charm of his sea scenes resides emphatically in their poetry. And we have had a Pickney, than some of whose minor verses there is nothing more exquisite in language.
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