Excerpt from English Poetesses: A Series of Critical Biographies, With Illustrative Extracts But not less needful than experience, to the poet, is a noble sense of ignorance. He is the child of the universe. For him there is a feeling of everlasting mystery. He is always looking beyond. This hungry contemplation of in completeness in all things makes the poet a speculative critic of all so-called certainties. For him, no less than for the philosopher, the Cartesian criterion of doubt is the imperative method of attaining any truth. 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.