The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 Various - Edited by Bliss Carman Project Gutenberg's The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8, by Bliss Carman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 Author: Various Edited by Bliss Carman Release Date: July 17, 2004 [EBook #12924] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY, VOLUME 8 *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Leonard Johnson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. _THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY_ _I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy: Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetical Quotations_ THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED Editor-in-Chief BLISS CARMAN Associate Editors John Vance Cheney Charles G.D. Roberts Charles F. Richardson Francis H. Stoddard Managing Editor John R. Howard 1904. _The World's Best Poetry Vol. VIII NATIONAL SPIRIT_ THE STUDY OF POETRY. BY FRANCIS HOVEY STODDARD. Clever men of action, according to Bacon, despise studies, ignorant men too much admire them, wise men make use of them. "Yet," he says, "they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without them and above them won by observation." These are the words of a man who had been taught by years of studiousness the emptiness of mere study.
[Show full text]