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THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WATSON, PUBLISHED BY JOHN LANE, AT THE BODLEY HEAD, 67 VTH AVENUE, NEW YORK | |
The Collected Poems of William Watson, with photogravure portrait of the author as frontispiece. Designed cover. 12mo. $2.50. This volume includes the work contained in the author's volumes, "Poems," "Lachrymæ Musarum," "Odes, and Other Poems," "The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems," "The Year of Shame," and "The Hope of the World, and Other Poems," with the exception of a few poems excluded by the author.
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The London Daily Chronicle says: "As we look through this collected edition of his work we feel confirmed in our belief that whatever his limitations, and they are not few, it is Mr Watson's function and his glory to hand on, in this generation, the great classical tradition of English poetry. On the threshold of the twentieth century he reconciles and brings to a common denominator, as it were, the best qualities of eighteenth-century and of nineteenth-century verse. He is the heir no less of Dryden than of Tennyson; it is hard to say whether Keats or Pope has more potentially influenced him. There is significance in the fact that his favorite instrument, which he fingers with the utmost mastery, is the classic instrument of the English Muse—the iambic pentameter. Pregnant, resonant, memorable lines flow inexhaustibly from his pen; and some of them, we venture to predict, will live with the language." | |
The following separate Volumes by Mr. William Watson may still be had: | |
The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems. $1.50. | [Third edition |
Poems. $1.25. | [Fifth edition |
Lachrymæ Musarum. $1.25. | [Fourth edition |
The Eloping Angels. $1.25. | [Second edition |
Odes, and Other Poems. $1.50. | [Fifth edition |
The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems. $1.25. | [Fifth edition |
The Purple East. $0.50. | [Third edition |
The Year of Shame. $1.00. | [Second edition |
The Hope of the World, and Other Poems. $1.25. | [Third edition |
Excursions in Criticism. $1.50. | [Second edition |