Excerpt from The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets That the hush which has fallen upon us precedes a new creation, who can doubt? Our poetry has known a full development; but our prose in creases every year in volume and power, and its story is just begun. It is feeling its way in the dubious region of social experiment and applied democracy, and the way is hard to find. Modern poetry, on the other hand, has been occupied rather with spiritual life than social problem; and the whole spiritual epoch which lies behind us finds, in its progress towards peace, full record in our verse. The poetry of the revolution beheld ideals; Vic torian poetry has tested them. We have now both vision and knowledge. The unrealized glory 'of life spiritual and social has been shown to us. 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.