Excerpt from University of Ottawa Review, Vol. 2: September, 1899 TO paraphrase a famous saying Of Shelley to the effect that no man can say, I will compose poetry, it may be affirmed with at least equal correctness that no poet using the English language can say, I will compose poetry without exertion. Great art is the production Of great labor and mental suffering. Nothing that is really excellent is easy to do or to find. The divine afflatus, as displayed in the verse Of an overwhelming majority Of versifiers everywhere through the English-speaking world in our time, appears to be the direct Opposite to the divine. 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.