Excerpt from Common Men and Women I find a tendency to discount the poems of Matthew Arnold and other poets for the poems which they have not put into formal metre and to apologize for this fact rather than accept it. It seems to me that prose writers like Carlyle and Abraham Lincoln, Dickens and Thackeray, have rather been at fault for not offering certain portions Of their work as poems rather than prose or, at least, as not prose. For some time I have felt that there was a form of speaking and writing which could hardly be called either prose or verse, yet it has kept to one of these names because none has been venturesome enough to make a new classification of the general divisions of speaking and writing. 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.