Poetical Works of Lionel Johnson

Poetical works of Lionel Johnson – is a collection of poems which was published in 1915 and written by Lionel Johnson, an English essayist, poet and critic of 19th century. His poems are mostly criticism. You can almost say that this is literary criticism in poetry, because this is the impression they leave, if you leave them long enough to get an idea of the book as a whole, and not about confusion, not about many small contradictions about the impressions from individual poems. His language is formal. It has an old-fashioned precision that is very different from the precision that is sought now, but in a dozen places where this majestic and meticulous speech is driven by an unusual passion, Lionel Johnson has left poetry as beautiful as any in English. This edition, in addition to many verses, includes several illustrations, as well as an alphabetical index.