Oxford Poetry: 1914-1916 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Oxford Poetry: 1914-1916

Not that the Oxford poets are out of love With life - far otherwise; but they are taking stock of their opportunities, estimating their adversaries, and concentrating their powers, like runners who are kept waiting in tense atti tudes at the mark until the flag Shall fall and the struggle begin. They will not be together again till the race is over; meantime they are friends. They are hungry, some of them, for pleasure, and they will be given experience, which is pleasure without the sickly taste.

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Excerpt from Oxford Poetry: 1914-1916

Here is another book of Oxford poetry, the harvest of the year 1914, and I am invited to do what I can to give the poets that which poets so often need, an introduction to readers. You therefore that are readers, I charge you, read this book. You are free to praise or censure, so you will only read. Your love and your hate are welcome; what we cannot away with is that air of superiority and indifference which, in our opinion, sits so ill on you. Many of you read the newspapers; have you no ears for news except such news as is dead and rotten the morning after its birth? What we offer you is as fresh as the latest tidings concerning Kings and Cabinets, with this difference in our favour, that our news is new yesterday, to-day, and tomorrow; it will keep its sweetness when your far-fetched and dear-bought importations have gone to dust. Can you taste nothing but what trembles on the verge of decay? Will you listen to no speaker unless he screams and dies? It is characteristic of your odious self-sufficiency that you do not answer questions like these. I am in no mind to keep on asking you, "Are you there?" Perhaps you arc not even reading this preface.

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.