Download or read book Little Masterpieces of English Poetry by British and American Authors, Vol. 5 written by Henry Van Dyke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Little Masterpieces of English Poetry by British and American Authors, Vol. 5: Descriptive and Reflective Verse Most of the poems here are lyrics and couse quently freely varying in form. A few of the character pieces have a strong dramatic quality and some reflective verse is but poorly covered by the term lyric at the best. It is interesting to see the larger proportion, as compared with the vol ume of pure lyrics, of blank verse and of other linked and continued measures. As the emotional element of the verse becomes less intense, the melody becomes gentler and less obtrusive, - in other words, form and content are not to be di vorced. 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.