Among the Muses (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Among the Muses Neither personal egotism that presumes itself invulnerable to criticism because of presumptive merit in a work of the mind, nor a yielding to alleged clamoring of friends, have had anything to do with supplying the incentive to this publication. It appears without the knowledge, request, or consent of any one except the writer. Why should a book go about apologizing or seeking some excuse to offer in extenuation for having been brought into existence, any more than an individual? A greater power or a higher cumulative force than either brought each upon the stage of being. Inasmuch, however, as there is an unwritten law of reciprocation between a publication and the reader, it seems befitting that a new work should be given such preliminary unfoldings as naturally urge themselves upon the projector. An impelling cause of this appearance has been the simple gratification of a desire to test the extent of a favorable reception on the one hand, and to note such criticism as may be called forth thereby, on the other. Usually, though not invariably, the general public passes judgment with a fair degree of impartiality. The work has probably never yet appeared that of itself silenced or disarmed unfavorable comment. This is especially true of metrical origination. Standing at the head of creative literature, poetry, in its true sense, is the ideal interpreter of the most exalted phases of thought, feeling, emotion, and the sublime subtlety of cause and effect. It therefore invites the keenest analysis and the closest inspection of its structural forms. No man or woman seems fully prepared to estimate the scope or significance of the original properties that have, consciously or unconsciously, been assimilated from the thoughts of others in an offering to the world. 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.