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Excerpt from Modern American Poetry: An AnthologyWhitman, who was to in¿uence future generations so profoundly in Europe as well as in America, had already appeared. The third edition of that stupendous volume, Leaves of Grass, had been printed in 1860. Almost im mediately after, the publisher failed and the book passed out of public notice. But private scrutiny was keen. In 1865 a petty Ofiicial discovered that Whitman was the author of the n...

Excerpt from And Other Poets Having thus established and betrayed my own position I immediately disclaim it. Hav ing spiked my own guns I cannot very well announce that I have attempted fito parody the thoughts, moods and manners of the poets vic timized rather than any specific workgaand that in only one case did I have a particular poem in mind. Neither can I now lay claim to any educative and serious pretensions. Nor can I go on to say any...

Excerpt from Modern British Poetry: Edited Henley repudiated this languid aestheticism he scorned a negative art which was out of touch with the world. His was a large and sweeping affirmation. He felt that mere existence was glorious, life was coarse, di¿icult, Often dangerous and dirty, but splendid at the heart. Art, he knew, could not be separated from the dreams and hungers of man, it could not ¿ourish only on its own essences or technic...

Excerpt from Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Poems, Selected and Translated Among other and less significant things, he recog nizes him as a romanticist and the chief foe of Romanticism, a true poet and a born journalist, an historian without method, a philosopher without a real philosophy, a free liver and yet loyal to his wife and reverent of his mother, the most tender of Teutonic poets and the most brutally cynical,...

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Excerpt from Modern American Poetry: An Introduction Many, though not all of the poets that 'have succeeded Whitman have found a fresh, living and vigorous poetry in a world of honest and sometimes harsh reality. They respond to the spirit of their times. The singer to-day writes about things unknown to the poet of yesterday. Not only has his view been changed, his vision has wid ened. He can employ any incident, any subject, instead of being...

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Excerpt from The New Adam For the privilege of reprinting many of the poems in this volume, the author desires to thank the editors of The Bellman, The Century, C ollier's, The Dial, Everybody's, The Forum, Harper's, Good Housekeeping, The Liberator, The New Republic, The Pictorial Review, Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, Scribner's, The Seven Arts, The Smart Set, The Yale Review and other magazines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishe...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Excerpt from Including Horace Ever since Davidson published his translations in 171 I, an entire literature has grown 11p around Horace, so great that the poet himself has been al most obscured. Practically every editor has sent forth the Odes and Satires with a mass of erudite notes, of variorum readings, of grammatical and tech nical criticisms, of dissertations on the metrical intrica cies - a collection so weighty that it made Horace seem...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.