All Good Work Is Done The Way

I Often Imagine That The Longer He Studies English Literature The More The Japanese Student Must Be Astonished At The Extraordinary Predominance Given To The Passion Of Love Both In Fiction And In Poetry.

But I Confess That "my Mind To Me A Kingdom Is" - Not! Rather It Is A Fantastical Republic, Daily Troubled By More Revolutions Than Ever Occurred In South America.

There Is One Type Of Ideal Woman Very Seldom Described In Poetry - The Old Maid, The Woman Whom Sorrow Or Misfortune Prevents From Fulfilling Her Natural Destiny.

Accordingly The Northern Races Of Europe Found Their Inspiration In The Bible; And The Enthusiasm For It Has Not Yet Quite Faded Away.

Perhaps There Is An Idea Among Japanese Students That One General Difference Between Japanese And Western Poetry Is That The Former Cultivates Short Forms And The Latter Longer Ones, Gut This Is Only In Part True.