Excerpt from Personal Traits of British Authors: Byron-Shelley-Moore-Rogers-Keats-Southey-Landor The method chosen by the editor has been criti cised by friends, who think that it would have been better to embody the results Of investigation in a continuous narrative, thus avoiding the harsh tran sitions of style and the literary awkwardness Of a mere compilation. While recognizing the force of these criticisms, the editor is quite confident that his original design is better fitted to accomplish the purpose Of his work. ...
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Excerpt from Personal Traits of British Authors: Byron-Shelley-Moore-Rogers-Keats-Southey-Landor The method chosen by the editor has been criti cised by friends, who think that it would have been better to embody the results Of investigation in a continuous narrative, thus avoiding the harsh tran sitions of style and the literary awkwardness Of a mere compilation. While recognizing the force of these criticisms, the editor is quite confident that his original design is better fitted to accomplish the purpose Of his work. Accordingly, the several wit nesses are permitted to tell their stories each in his own way. Nothing which directly served the end in view has been excluded because it happened to be written in bad English. On the witness-stand the testimony Of the untaught peasant is Often quite as valuable as that Of the bard or the sage; and so it happens that some strange and unpleasing con trasts will be found in these pages; for here the skilful and the clumsy stand side by side. The graceful and musical diction Of De Quincey may be followed by the shabby finery Of Willis, and the reader may be led from.carlyle's rugged force, or the dreamlike beauty Of Hawthorne, to the flippancy of some Obscure literary hack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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