The Minstrel; Or the Progress of Genius: And Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Bromley, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451019904 ISBN 13: 9781451019902

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Excerpt from The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius: And Other Poems

Edwiln is not the portrait of an individual, such as the Wanderer, or the Solitary, in'words worth's excursion; there is no draniatic sub stance in the form of the minstrel. He is rather the romance of early life personified and this constitutes the true charm of the poem. Whoever has any associations of innocence or happiness with the images of rural life, who ever can look back to a period in which he was conscious of the indefinite feelings which belong to the fancy, cannot fail of being arrested in the descriptions and sentiments of the First Part of the minstrel: while a man of phi losophical habitswill feel a superior degree of pleasure in tracing the natural progress of the mind in the supposed case of a youth' like Edwin. The father, too, Will be apt to fancy him his son, and the maiden her lover. By thus Operating on the best sympathies of our nature, the poem acquires a power of impressing the imagination.

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James Beattie has had a long interest in heart failure. He was Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Birmingham and was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at Heartlands Hospital in 1990. For about 15 years he has had an interest in palliative care for heart failure and for
the past 3 years has been a National Clinical Lead for the NHS Heart Improvement Programme promoting the development of such services across England. He is a member of the Circulatory Forum of the National Council for Palliative Care and the Department of Health End of Life Care Strategy Group. He
is also a member of the British Cardiovascular Society and holds fellowships of the European Society of Cardiology and the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Glasgow and London. Sarah Goodlin is a geriatrician and palliative care physician in Salt Lake City. Dr Goodlin developed the New Hampshire End
of Life Project, a two-year project that initiated a state-wide collaborative to improve end of life care and developed outcome measures for care of persons near the end of life. In 1998 she initiated quality improvement projects for care of the frail elderly and for persons with advanced heart
failure. In 2002 and 2003 Dr Goodlin directed two consensus conferences on Palliative and Supportive Care in Advanced Heart Failure, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She directs the Palliative Care-Heart Failure Education and Research Collaborative,
a national working group of researchers and clinicians formed to improve quality of life and meet the needs of patients with advanced heart failure and their families. Dr Goodlin was also a member ofthe Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451019904
• ISBN 13: 9781451019902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210