Excerpt from Formative Types in English Poetry: The Earl Lectures of 1917 The substance of this book was delivered as a series of lectures on the Earl Foundation be fore the Pacific Theological Seminary in Berke ley, California, during the spring of 1917. The subject was one Which had long interested me. I had spoken on it before the Lowell Institute in Boston in 1913 and subsequently on several occasions had found for it eager auditors and critics among college students. This frequent traversing of the same ground has helped me to perceive more plainly the path to be fol lowed and has controlled the inclination to turn to this side 01: that in search of better prospects. 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.