Author : Adam Lindsay Gordon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0366561359
Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (Classic Reprint) by Adam Lindsay Gordon Pdf
Excerpt from Sea Spray and Smoke Drift The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a stirring and adventurous life, it is not to be wondered at if they are unequal or unfinished. The astonishment of those who knew the man, and can guage the capacity of this city to foster poetic instinct, is, that such work was ever produced here at all. In tensely nervous and feeling much of that shame at the exercise of the higher intelligence which besets those who are known to be renowned in field sports, Gordon produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them anonymously to magazines. It was not until that he discovered one morn ing that everybody knew a couplet or two of How we beat the Favourite that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a versemaker. The success of his republished collected poems gave him courage, and the unreserved praise which greeted Bush Ballads should have urged him to forget or to conquer those evil promptings which unhappily brought about his untimely death. 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.
