Excerpt from The Dome in Air: Thought on Poetry and the Poets From time to time for various audi ences. Brought together, it naturally proves rather, as Byron styled the Giaour, a string of passages than a connected series of papers. Still, the ever-present conviction that poetry is always poetry, that poetry is of great importance, that there are laws governing poetry, and that these laws can be and should be familiar to the people, this, perhaps, establishes sufficient continu ity to warrant the issue of the collection. Should the inspiring conviction stand out too roughly at times, it will be smoothed down by many another hand, leisured and skilled not to. 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.