Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Essays and Poems
A Shakesgbeare song-index was another useful contribution of this worshipper of the Bard and two or three essays in pamphlet form, and verses from his pen in magazines and periodicals, have appeared at various times, some of which work - in slightly amended form - is here given a more permanent setting. Other literary ventures were left incomplete, and budding schemes - notably a blank-verse romantic drama - robbed of their fruition.
Though the prose and poetical material here in corporated bears undeniable evidence of ripe thought and of skilled artistry and workmanship, it must yet be taken, in View of the writer's death at so early an age, as but the promise of what might have been. These papers were all written (with the exception of the one entitled Woman in Shakespeare which was first drafted - though subsequently revised - in 1896) between the years 1901 and 1903, the earliest of the poems dating back to 1890; the more artistic and certain touch of later work being responsible for the larger selection of the included pieces being chosen therefrom.
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