THE BRIDLING OF PEGASUS THE BRIDLING OF PEGASUS PROSE PAPERS ON POETRY THE BRIDLING OF PEGASUS PROSE PAPERS ON POETRY BY ALFRED AUSTIN POET LAUREATE BY ALFRED AUSTIN Essay Index Reprint Series BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS, INC. FREEPORT, NEW YORK (Originally published by Macmillan and Co.) First published 1910 Reprinted 1967 Reprinted from a copy in the collections of The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations When Bellerophon, mounted on Pegasus, set forth to kill the Chimera, Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom, gave him a golden bridle with which to curb and guide his winged steed. Hence the title of this volume, “The Bridling of Pegasus.” TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ALFRED C. LYALL, K.C.B. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ALFRED C. LYALL, K.C.B. My dear Lyall, My dear Lyall I should think you must have observed, in the course of your reading, that even in the most accredited organs of opinion, principles of literary criticism, either explicitly stated or tacitly assumed, are often utterly ignored, in the notice of some work or other in the self-same number. The result can only be to create confusion in the public mind. In this volume, consisting of papers written at various times during the last thirty years, no such contradiction will, I think, be found. Whether they be deemed sound or otherwise, they are at least coherent; the canons of criticism
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