The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry

by Alfred Austin

THE BRIDLING OF PEGASUS

THE BRIDLING OF
PEGASUS
PROSE PAPERS ON POETRY

BY
ALFRED AUSTIN
POET LAUREATE

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

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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.”

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TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR ALFRED C. LYALL, K.C.B.