Shakespeare S Home And Rural Life Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Home and Rural Life Reader, believing as we do, that all the volumes yet written on Shakespeare do not furnish as much true, and therefore sound criticism, as these few words of Ruskin, we ask you to wander with us in the fields of his native Warwickshire, and linger about the spots hallowed as his familiar haunts and home, and there find the best guide to, and interpreter of, his mighty writings. 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.

Excerpt from The Rural Life of Shakespeare, As: Illustrated by His Works Four years have elapsed since I published the result of my examination of Shakespeare, in a peculiar and limited point of view, to which I had been induced to give special attention while engaged in general study of his dramatic works. Encouraged by the approval of some of our most eminent Shakespearean students and scholars, and by the almost unanimous verdict of the Press, I have prosecuted the agreeable research; and I offer, in consequence, this enlarged edition. I have resisted the temptation to explain or remark on much of the text extracted; considering that, although such discussions would be interesting, they might possibly weaken the impression that I wished to make from the large number of quotations which seem to stand with such weight in their own apt and expressive language. In some instances, however, I have briefly added notes; and in a few only, I have written more at length. It is to the student of our greatest man I appeal; and, I am satisfied, he will find ample evidence in the passages themselves without need of prolix or lengthy pleading. It would have been very remarkable if an opinion so novel and decided as that to which I am committed had passed unchallenged; and therefore I was not surprised in receiving two or three adverse criticisms. 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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Home at New Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon In fimple language, I believe; a great many facts regarding Shakefpere remain to be brought to light; and that, while the critic or fcholar has little left to fay that 13 frefh or new regarding his works, the antiquary may have a great deal to difcover and to fay regarding the man. 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.

Excerpt from Reliques of Stratford-on-Avon: A Souvenir of Shakespeare's Home N the little country town of stratford-upon-avon, in Warwickshire, Shakespeare was born on April 22nd, 1564, and so the place attained to the greatest honour which any town in the British Isles can lay claim to that in it first saw the light the poet of poets and the dramatist of all time. Stratford had quietly existed for centuries before, and was very little affected by its good fortune 3 and even at the present day it is but little changed from Shakespeare's time. How different from the London to which he came, in his early days, to acquire that fame which so quickly became his. Could he now revisit the two places, he would hardly recognise a building in the London of to-day, certainly none in his old haunts in Southwark. But at Stratford, how different! Three and a half centuries have not altered it'to any great extent, and it is still easy to realise something of his life in the town where he was born, educated, and married, and Whither he returned, after a moderate interval in London, to settle down and enjoy the latter end of his all too brief career. 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.

Excerpt from Shakespeare: Life and Work In 1575, eleven years after his son William's birth, he bought the property, afterwards two houses, with gardens and orchards, the left-hand house of which tradition assigns as the poet's birthplace (in the first-floor room above the porch and below the gable), and which, having been restored, now looks outside as if it had been built a week ago, though the inside has been left in its old state. 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.

"Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics, 'Praise large farms, stick to small ones,'" Robert Frost said. "Twenty acres are just about enough." Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to critical acclaim, he returned to New England, acquired a new farm and became a rustic for much of the rest of his life. Frost claimed that all of his poetry was farm poetry. His deep admiration for Virgil's Georgics, or poems of rural life, inspired the creation of his own New England "georgics," his answer to the haughty 20th-century modernism that seemed certain to define the future of Western poetry. Like the "West-Running Brook" in his poem of the same name, Frost's poetry can be seen as an embodiment of contrariness.