Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 135: July and October, 1873
By these principles every surviving m may be examined, and, so far as it satisfies the test, it wil continue to afford men pleasure, so long as they care to read. Nor, unless he is pre pared to maintain that the constitution of the human mind has altered, and poetry is therefore bound to seek out a new track, can any critic claim for a modern poet exemption from the general law. We shall therefore endeavour, in a rapid survey, to consider the principles of contemporary poetry by means of the test which we have proposed.
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