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    The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse
    The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse
    The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse
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    The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse

    By William Stanley Braithwaite and Edward Smyth Jones

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse - William Stanley Braithwaite

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      Title: The Sylvan Cabin

      A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse

      Author: Edward Smyth Jones

      Contributor: William Stanley Braithwaite

      Release Date: July 12, 2008 [EBook #26036]

      Language: English

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      THE SYLVAN CABIN

      EDWARD SMYTH JONES

      THE SYLVAN CABIN

      A CENTENARY ODE ON

      THE BIRTH OF LINCOLN

      AND OTHER VERSE

      BY

      EDWARD SMYTH JONES

      WITH INTRODUCTION BY

      WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

      BOSTON

      SHERMAN, FRENCH & COMPANY

      1911

      Copyright, 1911

      Sherman, French & Company

      TO

      THE HON. ARTHUR P. STONE

      Justice of the Third District Court

      Cambridge, Massachusetts

      Edward Smyth Jones

      Boston, Mass.

      INTRODUCTION

      A poet that comes through a unique experience, as so many poets have, and very recently as the author of this volume has, arrives through his personality rather than his work at a precipitate sort of fame that may serve his talents well or serve them ill. To know that a man was sent to jail as the consequence of a passionate desire to go to college, and that that desire involved the tramping of dusty and hungry miles, adds to the interest to the man that cannot fail in some significant way to set a glamor upon the poet. Poetry is made out of experience—the experience of dreams, of action, of desires and hopes baffled on the inexplicable sea of circumstance; in these latter the dream is as the spirit, and the man whose art becomes an expression of all he has realized in living, his experiences become something more than art, they are the subtle rendering reality that is truth.

      In these poems of Mr. Jones' it is that which gives them a unique value because they are in a deeply essential manner the rendering of a human document, as all poems must be, of an individual who speaks universally. I emphasize this quality first because art registers its worth by the vitality of its substance. If the substance be vital, then its embodiment is artistically successful to the degree in which the maker has felt his experiences. These poems, then, will come to many readers with a freshness, with the appeal for a certain sympathy that will compel attention. The opening poem which celebrates the centenary of Lincoln's birth, with its fine imaginative sweep, is as good as any poem I have seen which that occasion called forth. In it is poetry that ought to assure Mr. Jones' future if circumstances permit him to cultivate an art for which nature has so obviously endowed him. The Sylvan Cabin in spirit may be said to characterize the author's book; that upward striving toward the ideal, which taking a personal expression in his own experience, in his own hopes, has also a larger significance in voicing the aspirations of those for whom, as is shown in many other poems, he becomes a voice, a representative.

      Mr. Jones' work has already won for him the approbation of many literary people, his poems having appeared from time to

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