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Excerpt from King Erik Give any one of our contemporary poets a legendary or historical subject as the basis of a drama, and while he will perhaps follow with conscientious accuracy in the path of his legend or history, he will display not only an ignor ance of the first requirements of the stage, but, very likely, an incapacity to develop at all a story by means of metrical dialogue. The movement of his verse will be entirely lyrical, most likely; or else artificially rugged, like that of Queen Mary, or Mr. Browning's dramas. Poetic imagery will be sought for, to the ruin of dramatic truth. Fancy, and what the poet cherishes most of all, his private thoughts upon things in general, will clog his imagination till its wings will droop over-weighted, like the lost angel's pinions in the story, sunk hell-ward by the very gems of Arden with which he had been endowed. 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.