EVERY MAN
HIS OWN POET.
EVERY MAN HIS OWN POET:
OR,
BY A
NEWDIGATE PRIZEMAN.
Nuper ventosa isthæc et enormis loquacitas animos juvenum ad magnasurgentes veluti pestilenti quodam sidere afflavit.—Petronius.
Thos. SHRIMPTON & SON, BROAD STREET.
1872.
Transcriber's Note
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. A tableof contents, though not present in the original publication, hasbeen provided below:
- INTRODUCTION.
- OF THE NATURE OF POETRY.
- RECIPES.
- HOW TO MAKE AN ORDINARY LOVE POEM.
- HOW TO MAKE A PATHETIC MARINE POEM.
- HOW TO WRITE AN EPIC POEM LIKE MR. TENNYSON.
- HOW TO WRITE A POEM LIKE MR. MATTHEW ARNOLD.
- HOW TO WRITE A POEM LIKE MR. BROWNING.
- HOW TO WRITE A MODERN PRE-RAPHAELITE POEM.
- HOW TO WRITE A NARRATIVE POEM LIKE MR. MORRIS.
- HOW TO WRITE A SATANIC POEM LIKE THE LATE LORD BYRON.
- HOW TO WRITE A PATRIOTIC POEM LIKE MR. SWINBURNE.
- CONCLUSION.
INTRODUCTION.
o have attempted in former times a work ofthis description, would have seemed, we cannotdeny, to savour either of presumption or ofidiotcy, or more probably of both. And rightly. Butwe live in times of progress. The mystery of yesterdayis the common-place of to-day; the Bible, which wasNewton's oracle, is Professor Huxley's jest-book; andstudents at the University now lose a class for not beingfamiliar with opinions, which but twenty years ago theywould have been expelled for dreaming of. Everythingis moving onward swiftly and satisfactorily; and if,when we have made all faiths fail, we can only contriveto silence the British Association, and so make all knowledgevanish away, there will lack nothing but thepresence of a perfect charity to turn the nineteenth centuryinto a complete kingdom of heaven. Amongstchanges, then, so great and so hopeful—amongst thediscoveries of the rights of women, the infallibilityof the Pope, and the physical basis of life, it may[4] BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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