Download or read book Studies in Prose and Poetry (Classic Reprint) written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Prose and Poetry This is the man whose private journal now lies at last before us. 'thank heaven, ' somebody said once 'we know nothing about Shakespeare.' Thank God, any reader of this diary may say, 'we know all about Scott.' But this knowledge brings him so near to us that we feel it almost as difficult as his nearest friends must evidently have felt it to express the impression or translate the emotion it produces or excites. 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.