The Golden Treasury

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Excerpt from The Golden Treasury: Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged With Notes This also is all he can plead in regard to a point even more liable to question - what degree of merit should give rank among the Best. That a poem shall be worthy of the writer's genius, - that it shall reach a perfection commensurate with its aim, - that we should require fin ish in proportion to brevity, - that passion, colour, and originality cannot atone for serious imperfections in clearness, unity or truth, - that a few good lines do not make a good poem, that popular estimate is serviceable as a guidepost more than as a compass, - above all, that excellence should be looked for rather in the whole than in the parts, - such and other such canons have been always steadily regarded. He may however add that the pieces Chosen, and a far larger number rejected, have been carefully and repeatedly considered, and that he has been aided throughout by two friends of independent and exercised judgment, besides the distinguished person addressed in the Dedication. It is hoped that by this procedure the volume has been freed from that one-sided ness which must beset individual decisions - but for the final choice the Editor is alone responsible. 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.