Excerpt from The Poetry of Thomas S. Jones, Jr. HE essence of all fine and subtle things is to leave them unprofaned by definition, and it is precisely in this reserve, this spiritual reticence, that the work of Mr. Thomas S. Jones, Jr., has its beauty and distinction. Mr. Jones has the gift of suggestion, of invoking the mood without analyzing it, which gives to his work a delicacy of feeling and fineness of touch at variance with the technique of modern verse, which tends more and more to elab oration. In this regard he has a strong afiinity with Housman and Miss Reese, though, in the main, unaffected by their manner. Indeed, when he trusts himself wholly, as in the lyric I went back an old-time lane, or The Little Ghosts or Sometimes, letting the mood convey itself in all its sheer simplicity, his individual note is at once apparent. Along this line lies, unmistakably, his personal gift. Modern poetry in its intricacy of form has strayed so far from the unaffected candor of the early lyrists that verse hav ing this lucidity, this directness, has at once an appeal beyond a more self-con scious art. It is the charm of Mr. Jones' work that many of his lyrics have a lucid song-quality, and by Virtue of this, and their invariably delicate motive, have beengiven exquisite musical settings by well known composers. 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.