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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

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EVERY MAN
HIS OWN POET.

EVERY MAN HIS OWN POET:

OR,

The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book.

BY A

NEWDIGATE PRIZEMAN.

Nuper ventosa isthaec et enormis loquacitas animos juvenum ad magna
surgentes veluti pestilenti quodam sidere afflavit.--PETRONIUS.

Oxford:
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.

To 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 common-place of to-day; the Bible, which
was