"The remarks on the poetry and philosophy of Michael Angelo,
which are prefixed to these translations have been collected and are
now published in the hope that they may invite the student of
literature to trace the relation which unites the efforts of the pure
intelligence and the desires of the heart to their highest earthly
accomplishment under the complete forms of Art. For the example of
so eminent a mind, watched and judged not only by its finished works,
but, as it were, in its growth and from its inner source of Love and
Knowledge cannot but enlarge the range of our sympathy for the best
powers and productions of man. And if these pages should meet with
any readers inclined, like their writer, to seek and to admire the
veiled truth and solemn beauty of the eldertime, they will add their
humble testimony to the fact, that whatever be the purpose and
tendencies of the time we live in, we are not all unmindful of the
better part of our inheritance in this world."
_Essays and Poems_. By JONES VERY. Boston: C. C. Little and
James Brown.
This little volume would have received an earlier notice, if we
had been at all careful to proclaim our favorite books.
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