The Complete Poetical Works Of John Hay, Including Many Poems Now First Collected
Автор:Clarence Leonard Hay Год: 2008 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 288 ISBN: 9781443713450 The Complete Poetical Works Of John Hay, Including Many Poems Now First Collected. INTRODUCTION. THE purpose of an Introduction is to introduce, and as the Pike County characters are already boning acquaintances if not old friends of most readers, it is not necessary to dwell on their associations or antecedents. There is an interesting allusion in a newspaper clipping which I recently came across in an old scrabook CoI. Thornas W. Knox, now on his way around the world, was told this story by an English gentleman in Tokyo, Japan The latter had attended, not Iong before, a dinner party in London, at which George Eliot was present, among other noted littrateurs. The conversation naturally turned upon the shop, and, referring to American authors, she pronounced John Hays Jim Bludso one of the finest gems in the English language, At the general request of the company she arose and recited the poem, the tears flowing from her eyes as she spoke the closing lines. My father...
