Excerpt from A Poet's Cabinet: Being Passages, Mainly Poetical, From the Works of George Lansing Raymond The present book is a work of this last class. The author, whose intellectual and Spiritual portrait it is intended to depict in a synthesis of his ideas and ideals as expressed in literary form, is both a philosopher and a poet. As a teacher of aesthetics, chiefly the artistry of language in both oral and written forms, he has exerted an influence over thousands of young men, in Williams College and Princeton and George Washington Universities, some of whom, among them the writer, who was his pupil and assistant-teacher at Princeton, acknowledge with gratitude the formative inspiration which they received from personal contact with him. A far wider area of influence he has circumscribed by his books, - a long series of works on aesthetics comparable only to those of Ruskin for scope of subject, consistency of interrelation, and originality of observation. The writer has had occasion a number of times, in his capacity as literary adviser, to refer authors who thought that they had made original discovery of vital principles in art, especially poetry, to Professor Raymond's series as expressing the substance of their ideas. Among the disciples of his pen are to be found even more enthusiastic admirers than among his former pupils. 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.