EIDOLON,

OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL; AND OTHER POEMS, BY WALTER R. CASSELS

LONDON WILLIAM PICKERING

1850

TO

CHARLES PEEL,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HIS FRIEND,

W. R. CASSELS.

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CONTENTS.

Miscellaneous Poems.

Sonnets.

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INTRODUCTION TO EIDOLON.

Hazlitt says, one cannot "make an allegory go on all fours," it must to a certain degree be obscure and shadowy, like the images which the traveller in the desert sees mirrored on the heavens, wherein he can trace but a dreamy resemblance to the reality beneath. It therefore seems to me advisable to give a solution of the "Eidolon," the symbol, which follows, that the purpose of the poem may at once be evident.

In "Eidolon" I have attempted to symbol the course of a Poet's mind from a state wherein thought is 

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