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Excerpt from Sonnets
The great modern master of the sonnet, Wordsworth, pronounced those of Sir Aubrey de Vere to be among the most perfect of our age. Whether they illustrated Nature, em bodied thought, or expressed imaginative emo tion, his severe judgment noted in them the artist's hand faithful to the best ancient mo dels, and the truthful soul of a poet. That form of composition suited the author's genius, which was serious. His poetry not only did not seek some allurements which have graced, or disgraced, much verse of a later date, but it dispensed also with many attractions which are irreproachable. It was as an utterance of man's spiritual being, and also of his affections, not of our lower passions, fancies, or dialectic crochets, that he chiefly valued poetry; and, in each case, the sonnet, if an arduous, was also a truthful form for such expression. The sincerity Of his poetic imagination is marked especially in those sonnets which refer, with a manly pathos, to a few linked to him by domes. 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.
