Excerpt from Aarbert a Drama Without Stage or Scenery, Wrought Out Through Song in Many Metres, Mostly LyricThe poem of Aarbert, ' like Bunyan's prose alle gory, describes a Christian pilgrim's progress from earthliness to heavenliness. But whilst in the alle gory the pilgrim's-feelings are expressed by the author in prose narrative and dialogue, they are in the poem expressed by the pilgrim himself in odes and hymns, and in the dialogues and soliloquies of verse. Again, whilst in the allego_r_y the 'progress is from the pil grim's quitting the city of destruction, ' or worldly life, up to his reaching the river of death Opposite to the gate of heaven, the progress in the poem is from his contented stay in that city up to his reaching the highway, on Christian ground, leading to that yet dis tant gate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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