The White Pilgrim, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The White Pilgrim, and Other Poems

I DO not remember in what part of Moore's works I once read the first tremulous remarks he made when, for the first time, he committed a volume of poetry to the world, and appealed to it as a poet. Plays which have' only appeared in dramatic form, stray verses which magazines have absorbed, look very different to the writer when first he contemplates them in the ambitious form of a book, and trembles for his own venture. May this find lenient judges and kindly friends. And let me express the h0pe that the political verses which form part of it may be taken in the spirit in which they are written, of freedom from offence. I have carefully revised them with that view, conscious that ex pressions which may pass for the moment should have no longer life than' cc gue m'wnt les plazirantm'es.

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Excerpt from The White Pilgrim, and Other Poems

I think that I owe it to him in return to say that the willingness with which he trusted a favourite fancy to my care deserved a better return than a stage spoiling.

From any literary view, things on the stage have certainly changed. Authors might put their best literary qualities, in all their differing degrees, into a School for Scandal, She Stoops to Conquer, Money, or London Assurance - which can always be revived, for old favourites are sacred in England. But nowadays they had better keep them out of plays, and use them elsewhere.

There will always be room for one man, with the intellect and tact of Irving, to keep alive the immortal Shakesperean legend by adapting it to the peculiarities of the day, but - I fear that the rest is silence. Lord Ellenborough is reported once to have said, as a warning to barristers, "There are callings, in which to be suspected of literature is dangerous." I am afraid that the calling of the dramatist is one of them.

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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.