Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poems
Every good artist has especial marks of his own indeed, it is his individual conception of beauty which impels him to create, and justifies his creations when they are successful. And this distinction of his work bears, especially in poetry, a very true and near relation to his personal character and life-history; so that those who admire or love a poet's work are instinctively drawn to the man, and are eager to learn anything that may deepen their intimacy. Dixon's poetry possesses this attraction, and I might be expected in some measure to gratify the desire which it must awaken; but our close friendship of twenty years was confined to the end of his life, and my competence to tell of that does not entitle me to speak of his younger days, when his taste and style were formed, and most of his verse was written. It is needful to reckon with that period in eriti cising the poems, but I shall limit myself to general data. I have neither the confidence of a biographer nor the space to supplement my own memories with what is written elsewhere. 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.
