Excerpt from A Book of Princeton Verse II, 1919 When I came back to Princeton in 1900, as a teacher of reading in English literature, poetry was at a low ebb. Most of the students frankly said they did not care for it, and the few who tried to write in verse were regarded as eccentric fellows, hardly worthy of membership in an upper-class club. My first task was to persuade the boys that poetry was the most humane and intimate of all the liberal arts; that it had something to say, in one or other of its many forms, to every man about the mean ing of nature and life; and that one of the chief glories of the English-speaking race was its rich and noble utterance in poetry. 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.