Excerpt from Quest and Vision: Essays in Life and Literature The class of men society has been pleased to identify as poets must, in similar fashion, abide by the traditional ideal society has set up. The actor may purge himself and his calling, and live in perfect nobility of life; but the mass of men will still persist in regarding him as an immoral person, whom the law recognizes as a vagrant and to the vulgar mind the poet will still remain a person Of unsound and unsafe life. You cannot persuade society that you are not what the tradition of your calling says you are; and the attempt only results in irrita tion and defiance. 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.