Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Although in the foregoing r. Unt stress has been laid on his school and college successes, it must not be imagined that he was merely a student. Or that his interests were confined to the narrow field of the typical scholar. Even more remarkable than his splendid scholastic achievements were the poise and balance that he kept at all times between intellectual matters and the practical and social side of life. His gifts were always open to the use of his friends, and natural cheeriness and kindli ness contributed more to his popularity than either wit or the possession of knowledge. His splendid physique and natural delight in out-door sports kept him in a health and manly vigor not often associated with intellectual pre-eminence, and later enabled him to bear the fierce mental and physical tests of service conditions in France without in any way impairing his intellectual qualities.

The following poems were collected after his death from among his papers. They are entirely fragmentary, and bear every mark of unfinished workmanship. Absolutely no emendationsor additions have been made except for obvious mistakes of a hurried writing. It would thus be unfair to subject these pieces to a rigorous criticism. There are no indications in any of his writings that he considered them worthy of preservation, and with one or two exceptions none of them were even more than drafted in pencil on waste sheets of paper. His ideals of artistic perfection were so high that probably his full powers were never devoted to producing any finished work at a time when his experience and education were so incomplete; and that this is so is borne out by the restraint of the more typical pieces, and the purely casual nature of the subjects chosen. The collection has been made as complete as possible under the circumstances, and the sole desire of the publication is to give his intimate friends the opportunity of seeing in these few fragments his promising lyrical gift and an undoubted poetic merit, which, because it was healthy and spontaneous, might have been capable of great development.

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