Excerpt from Poetry and Fact: An Inaugural Address Delivered at University College, Liverpool, March 13th, 1890 To set forth such a theory complete would trans cend my ability and your patience. So I have narrowed the field of my expatiation, by confining myself to the treatment of Literature ln lts highest and purest form - Poetry, -and further by discarding, for the time being, the more technical and formal aspects of the subject, and addressing myself more particularly to one problem - the endeavour to strip Poetry of its outward form, to peel off, as it were, the mummy-wrappings of verse, and see whether we can discover the trick of the embalmers. 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.