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Edward Dowden

A History of French LiteratureEdward Dowden A History of French Literature / Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II PREFACE French prose and French poetry had interested me during so many years that when Mr. Gosse invited me to write this book I knew that I was qualified in one parti...

PoemsEdward Dowden Poems PREFACE Goethe says in a little poem1 that “Poems are stained glass windows”—“Gedichte sind gemalte Fensterscheiben”—to be seen aright not from the “market-place” but only from the interior of the church, “die heilige Kapelle”: and that “der Herr Philister” (equivalent fo...

Robert BrowningEdward Dowden Robert Browning If I, too, should try and speak at times,Leading your love to where my love, perchance,Climbed earlier, found a nest before you knew,Why, bear with the poor climber, for love's sake. —Balaustion's Adventure.>Editor's Preface "In the case of those wh...