Author : David Chalmers Nimmo
Release : 2015-08-04
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 775/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nature Songs (Classic Reprint) by : David Chalmers Nimmo

Download or read book Nature Songs (Classic Reprint) written by David Chalmers Nimmo. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature Songs In putting forth a fifth book of verse that cannot find a publisher, reader or a friend, perhaps the plain, blunt truth again is best. All the votes that really count are adverse. It can't get across. Perhaps it is not worth it. Perhaps it has performed its highest service in giving the author mental occupation at a time when most needed, but in a country and nation that has none of the first class and very little of second class poetry, it ought not to be so hard to find a publisher and more important, a person capable of judging who will even read. This is the first classified collection of my songs. They are a lyrical contribution to a subject that ought to have a large and inspiring volume. It is surprising that we have no great book of such a character. Why has no genius been born and consecrated to this subject! The scattered fragments in the singers are merely incidents and illustrations. Byron, Wordsworth and Shelley may give us an utterance here and there, but we have no great songs on the sea, the mountains, the plains, the forests, the sun, the moon and the midnight heavens. The vast panorama of the seasons goes on and yet we have no great lyrics on the passion of spring, the ripeness of summer, the magnificence of autumn and the polar virility of winter. In nature there is a fountain of infinite song that ought to be more and more delightful to men as they are being bound up in a social organism that is unkind to all the pure influences and inspirations of the first great mother. These songs are just a little contribution in that direction and an invitation to the singer, the apostle and prophet of nature to appear. A great deal more in this book than the mere poetic forms will instantly compel comparisons with the poet Shelley. It is the right place to acknowledge the relationship which is none other than that of poetic fatherhood. 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.