Excerpt from The World's Best Poetry: Descriptive, Narrative; What's the Use of Poetry; Volumes 7 and 8; National Spirit, the Study of Poetry Till grave men weary Of the sound of rhyme. - w1llia.\1 watson, in Wordsworth's Grave. Tiiere is no doubt that manv - one might al most sav most people are firmly convinced that they do not care for poetry. They have no use for it, they tell vou. Either it bores them, as a fantastic, highllown method of saying something that, to their wav of thinkine', could lit} better said in plain prose, or thev look upon it as the senti mental nonsense of the moonstruck and lovesick young - r kind of intellectual candy all verv well for women and children, but of. No value to grown men with the serious work of the world on their shoulders. 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.