My Reminiscences

In These Memory Pictures, So Lightly, Even Casually Presented By The Author There Is, Nevertheless, Revealed A Connected History Of His Inner Life Together With That Of The Varying Literary Forms In Which His Growing Self Found Successive Expression, Up To The Point At Which Both His Soul And Poetry Attained Maturity. This Lightness Of Manner And Importance Of Matter Form A Combination The Translation Of Which Into A Different Language Is Naturally A Matter Of Considerable Difficulty. It Was, In Any Case, A Task Which The Present Translator, Not Being An Original Writer In The English Language, Would Hardly Have Ventured To Undertake, Had There Not Been Other Considerations.