Excerpt from Poems
Mr. Cecil Roberts has published several volumes of poems, each better than the last; The Youth of Beauty, Twenty-six Poems, and Charing Cross. Many of the poems in these volumes must already be known in America, where poetry is more eagerly read, perhaps, than in any other country in the world. I have been asked to write a few words in preface to the present volume, of his latest poems.
If I may say so, without offence, Mr. Roberts is a little like the Mysterious Stranger in a novel. One says of him (as the Count in the novel says), "He knows more of the French King than any man I ever met; yet who is he?" In conversation with him, I understood him to say that he is fifty-four years old. In conversation with a friend of his, I was told that he is twenty-five years old. For my own part, I should have said that he is somewhere between those two ages; yet it is difficult to be sure.
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Mr. Cecil Roberts has published several volumes of poems, each better than the last; The Youth of Beauty, Twenty-six Poems, and Charing Cross. Many of the poems in these volumes must already be known in America, where poetry is more eagerly read, perhaps, than in any other country in the world. I have been asked to write a few words in preface to the present volume, of his latest poems.
If I may say so, without offence, Mr. Roberts is a little like the Mysterious Stranger in a novel. One says of him (as the Count in the novel says), "He knows more of the French King than any man I ever met; yet who is he?" In conversation with him, I understood him to say that he is fifty-four years old. In conversation with a friend of his, I was told that he is twenty-five years old. For my own part, I should have said that he is somewhere between those two ages; yet it is difficult to be sure.
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.
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