Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Harvard Lyrics and Other Verses: Being Selections of the Best Verse Written by Harvard Undergraduates Within the Last Ten Years
The motive that prompted the compilation of this little volume was a desire to collect into convenient form some of the more serious thoughts of Harvard students as expressed in their best verse, with the hope of creating in the public mind a better impression of the standard of undergraduate literary work. One would not claim for the poems here presented that they have the depth of a Browning or the metrical perfection of a Tennyson; but I believe one can assert with reason that they are worthy of the attention of thoughtful readers. Immature many of them may be, but all are indicative of serious mood and elevated purpose. This seriousness of student thought is too little recognized or understood by the outside world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
