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Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

CHAPTER X
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But you must have observed that, in Western countries, nearly all such anthologies are compiled chronologically--not according to the subject of the poems.

To this general rule there are indeed a few exceptions.

There is a collection of love poetry by Watson, which is famous; a collection of child poetry by Patmore; a collection of "society verse" by Locker-Lampson; and several things of that sort.

But even here the arrangement is not of a special kind; nor is it ever divided according to the subject of each particular poem.

I know that some books have been published of late years with such titles as "Poems of the Sea," "Poems of Nature"-- but these are of no literary importance at all and they are not compiled by competent critics.
Besides, the subject-heads are always of much too general a kind.


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