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CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | [vii] |
| Chronological List of Plays | [xiii] |
| The Gods of the Mountain | [1] |
| The Golden Doom | [39] |
| King Argimēnēs and the Unknown Warrior | [61] |
| The Glittering Gate | [87] |
| The Lost Silk Hat | [101] |
INTRODUCTION
Observation and imagination are the basic principles of all poetry. It is impossible to conceive a poetical work from which one of them is wholly absent. Observation without imagination makes for obviousness; imagination without observation turns into nonsense. What marks the world's greatest poetry is perhaps the presence in almost equal proportion of both these principles. But as a rule we find one of them predominating, and from this one-sided emphasis the poetry of the period derives its character as realistic or idealistic.