The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, Vol. 1 Of 2 Now First Entirely Collected, Revised by Himself, and Edited with an Introduction (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, Vol. 1 of 2: Now First Entirely Collected, Revised by Himself, and Edited With an Introduction IT is well, for every one who undertakes to com ment upon a work of art, to remember that, in this mutable world, there is nothing so mutable as crit ical Opinion. While every author professes to be guided by certain eternal, unchangeable laws Of taste, regulated by a sort of universal consent of all civilized nations, none has been sufficiently fortunate, learned, or industrious to furnish us with a satisfactory codification of them. To one the purest taste is Greek, to another Gothic, or medi eval, while a third can admire nothing but the German. An impatient reader, in view of the ridiculous confusion introduced into the domain of aesthetics by these clashing Opinions, can hardly be blamed if he loses sight of the distinction between taste and whim. 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.