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Excerpt from The Art of Poetry: Seven Lectures, 1920-1922 Drummond of Hawthornden, writing his senti ments about a new fashion in poetry which dis pleased him, begins with some old-fashioned sentences which may afford a text here; in a letter addressed to his much-honoured friend M. A. J., Physician to the King His friend is the poet Arthur Johnston, 'who holds among. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.