The Hundred Best Blank Verse Passages: In the English Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Gowans, Adam Luke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331723833 ISBN 13: 9781331723837

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Hundred Best Blank Verse Passages: In the English Language

Fortunately, it is no longer necessary to attempt to re-awaken interest in Shakespeare; never was his resplendent genius more universally admired than at the present day. Certainly, however, Milton is not read nowadays as he deserves to be, and' if the perusal of the great passages from Paradise Lost' should lead some of my readers to turn for the first time to a book they have never studied, this selection will have justified its existence. The same applies, in a slightly less degree only, to Cowper and his Task.'

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Excerpt from The Hundred Best Blank Verse Passages: In the English Language

It is in blank verse that the English language, unfettered by the laws of rhyme and guided by the master hands of Shakespeare and of Milton, has attained its highest flights. Some of the immortal passages from the Shakespearean tragedies are to English ears at once the sweetest and the sublimest ever written.

It has seemed to me, therefore, that a collection of blank verse passages of sustained excellence would be appreciated by many of those who have liked the previous volumes of this series, especially as I am not aware of the existence of any precisely similar selection. I have made it a condition of admission that such passages should be of not less than ten lines in length.

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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331723833
• ISBN 13: 9781331723837
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144