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    Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
    Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
    Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
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    Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book

    By W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book

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      Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book - W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Every Man His Own Poet, by Newdigate Prizeman

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      Title: Every Man His Own Poet

      Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book

      Author: Newdigate Prizeman

      Release Date: December 31, 2007 [EBook #24083]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVERY MAN HIS OWN POET ***

      Produced by K. Nordquist, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

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      EVERY MAN

      HIS OWN POET.

      EVERY MAN HIS OWN POET:

      OR,

      BY A

      NEWDIGATE PRIZEMAN.

      Nuper ventosa isthæc et enormis loquacitas animos juvenum ad magna surgentes veluti pestilenti quodam sidere afflavit.—Petronius.

      Thos. SHRIMPTON & SON, BROAD STREET.

      1872.

      Transcriber's Note

      Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. A table of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below:

      INTRODUCTION.

      OF THE NATURE OF POETRY.

      RECIPES.

      HOW TO MAKE AN ORDINARY LOVE POEM.

      HOW TO MAKE A PATHETIC MARINE POEM.

      HOW TO WRITE AN EPIC POEM LIKE MR. TENNYSON.

      HOW TO WRITE A POEM LIKE MR. MATTHEW ARNOLD.

      HOW TO WRITE A POEM LIKE MR. BROWNING.

      HOW TO WRITE A MODERN PRE-RAPHAELITE POEM.

      HOW TO WRITE A NARRATIVE POEM LIKE MR. MORRIS.

      HOW TO WRITE A SATANIC POEM LIKE THE LATE LORD BYRON.

      HOW TO WRITE A PATRIOTIC POEM LIKE MR. SWINBURNE.

      CONCLUSION.

      INTRODUCTION.

      o have attempted in former times a work of this description, would have seemed, we cannot deny, to savour either of presumption or of idiotcy, or more probably of both. And rightly. But we live in times of progress. The mystery of yesterday is the

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