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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8
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Title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8
Author: Various Edited by Bliss Carman
Release Date: July 17, 2004 [EBook #12924]
Language: English
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_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