The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 - National Spirit

Project Gutenberg's The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8, by Bliss CarmanThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8Author: Various Edited by Bliss CarmanRelease Date: July 17, 2004 [EBook #12924]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY, VOLUME 8 ***Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Leonard Johnson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy: Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetical QuotationsTHE WORLD'S BEST POETRYIN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATEDEditor-in-ChiefBLISS CARMANAssociate EditorsJohn Vance CheneyCharles G.D. RobertsCharles F. RichardsonFrancis H. StoddardManaging EditorJohn R. Howard1904.The World's Best Poetry Vol. VIII NATIONAL SPIRITTHE STUDY OF POETRY.BY FRANCIS HOVEY STODDARD.Clever men of action, according to Bacon, despise studies, ignorant men too much admire them, wise men makeuse of them. "Yet," he says, "they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without them and above themwon by observation." These are the words of a man who had been ...