Excerpt from Some Poems of Lionel Johnson: Newly Selected; With an Introduction One might have thought, misled by Lionel johnson's strongly philosophic fibre, his habits Of a recluse simplicity, his faith in minorities, his patrician Old-fashioned tastes, that he would have ranged himself with the abstract critics, with joubert and Vauvenargues, rather than with sainte-beuve. But it was another Of his surprising excellencies that he was never out of tune with cosmic externals, and the aspira tions of to-day. Into these his brain had a sort Of detached angelic insight. His earliest book, written while he was very young, was not about some subtlety Of Attic thought: it was a masterly exposition Of The Art Of Thomas Hardy. This same relevance and relativity Of our friend, this open dealing with the nearest interest, was his strength he not only did not shrink from con temporary life, but bathed in the apprehension Of it as joyously as in a mountain stream. How significant, how full Of fresh force, have been his many unsigned reviews Nothing so broad. 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.