Download or read book Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 2 written by Giles Fletcher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 2: Including the Whole of Giles Was stated upon a former occasion, i that a different method was adopted by the earlier poets. It is not until a late period in the civilization of a peo ple, that poetry, especially in its lyric and less im portant departments, is written with artifice and for efi'ect. It may appear paradoxical, to say of the poets of the Seventeenth Century that they were not artificial. They were so, in style and manner; not in sentiment and opinion. From the most fanciful of the school of Donne and Cowley. 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.