Excerpt from Stillwater Pastorals, and Other Poems For he wants, no doubt, what every poet wants not only the ineffable moment Of personal experience, but readers, friends, followers. He has had these last in but scanty measure, and yet in his sonnets he reveals his per feet faith that they will come. Defeated, we acknowledge no defeat. He asserts, with something Of an Elizabethan poet's hunger for earthly immortality, his right to be heard and his certainty Of being heard at last. Poets, like saints, sometimes believe because the thing is incredible, and Shi vell's personal pride is mingled with the humility Of some poor brother in Christ, dreaming a Tolstoyan dream without any of the fierce anarchic Tolstoyan egoism. 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.