Excerpt from Another Sheaf More seriously, the general indifference to new poetry is not of happy augury for English letters. It is vain to point to our wider culture, or to Mr. Traill's goodly array of highly skilled poets. For a little while the public may cheat itself by attending Greek plays and lectures on Dante, Shakespeare, or Tennyson - that approved modern method of building the sepulchres of the prophets. For a little while the art of poetry may seem to profit by its very struggle for existence, and the poet find consolation for public neglect in an inference flatter ing to himself. But by and bye when the itch for the platform and the conference is allayed; when the religious sentiment can no longer be tasted even at Bayreuth or Oberammergau, and causes ce'lebres are as rococo as their predecessor, the cockfight men may turn for intellectual and spiritual refresh ment to the old fountains, only to find that over one large area they have for a while at least run dry. 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.