Wightman Fletcher Melton
Published: 2017-11-08
Total Pages: 218
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Excerpt from The Rhetoric of John Donne's Verse: A Dissertation The third chapter deals with a yet practically untouched aspect of the criticism of English verse; The revelation of Donne's secret came to me suddenly after three years of daily, almost hourly, entreating, caressing, and wheedling of each line of his poetry.1 At first the thing seemed improbable; but, at the same time, it was so real and so plain as to give one that uncanny feeling experienced by those who dare to meddle with the affairs of 'some old lover's ghost.' 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.