Poor Gray was at least the better prophet.
WISHMAKERS' TOWN
A LIMITED edition of this little volume of verse, which seems to me
in many respects unique, was issued in 1885, and has long been out of
print. The reissue of the book is in response to the desire off certain
readers who have not forgotten the charm which William Young's poem
exercised upon them years ago, and, finding the charm still potent,
would have others share it.
The scheme of the poem, for it is a poem and not simply a series of
unrelated lyrics, is ingenious and original, and unfolds itself in
measures at once strong and delicate. The mood of the poet and the
method of the playwright are obvious throughout. Wishmakers' Town--a
little town situated in the no-man's-land of "The Tempest" and "A
Midsummer Night's Dream"--is shown to us as it awakens, touched by the
dawn. The clangor of bells far and near calls the townfolk to their
various avocations, the toiler to his toil, the idler to his idleness,
the miser to his gold.
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