Excerpt from Pure Gold: A Choice of Lyrics and Sonnets, With an Introduction With our great wealth of English poetry most of us know as much of each of the two great divisions of poetic art, the dramatic and the lyrical. Shakespeare, though he is to all ages and nations one of the greatest dramatic poets, is repte sented in this volume by examples of lyrical imagination. In the dramatic forms of poetry the poet does not appear; the movement unfolds itself as it were from its own inertia, inevitably. In lyrical poetry, though the matter may be objective, the method, mould, and motive are personal. 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.