Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poems of Owen Meredith (the Earl of Lytton) Selected, With an Introd: By M. Betham-Edwards
As the nosegay indicates the hixuriance of the garden, so should a selection epitomise the genius of the poet. Old acquaintances are reminded of many a familiar flower, strangers are enticed to enter. If the first may miss more than one especial favourite, they will still feel grateful for so much beauty presented to them in small compass; if the last cannot roam over the entire domain, they are compensated by the gift of lily or rose. "The poet," writes the all-sympathetic Goethe, "is alike teacher, seer, the friend of gods and men." A more modest yet gracious and self-rewarding function is that of the poets interpreter, of one who culls choicest blossoms of poesy for others, pointing to the pleasance wherein they grow.
It is no easy task to review in a few short pages the poetic career of Owen Meredith and the Earl of Lytton, one and the same person, yet characterised by work so widely divergent in scope and treatment as to suggest two individualities.
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