Near Nature S Heart A Volume Of Verse

Excerpt from Near Nature's Heart: A Volume of Verse The great artist is one whose whole body be comes a living soul; whose eye gets glimpses into the heart of Nature, with visions of the Super natural; whose ear hears their inner music, and whose hand produces ecstatic expression of their central force in some revelation of Beauty. And to make his art more real, more nearly perfect, Beauty more beautiful, such artist by contrast of ten depicts or suggests the deadly but doomed dis cords of life. 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.

This collection of poems written by an American poet, Crawford Jackson, uniquely focuses on nature - from its landscapes to its inhabitants. Some notable works inside this collection include the habits of birds from dawn to twilight and an ode written to Pilot Mountain.

"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne's life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.

Vols. 5-28 include its educational leaflets.