R F Murray: His Poems With a Memoir by Andrew Lang

R F Murray: His Poems With a Memoir by Andrew Lang
ISBN-10
1533331898
ISBN-13
9781533331892
Pages
132
Language
English
Published
2016-05-19
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Authors
Andrew Lang, R. F. Murray

Description

Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps, faints by the way. Mr. R. F. Murray, the author of The Scarlet Gown, was among those who do not attain success, in spite of qualities which seem destined to ensure it, and who fall out of the ranks. To him, indeed, success and the rewards of this world, money, and praise, did by no means seem things to be snatched at. To him success meant earning by his pen the very modest sum which sufficed for his wants, and the leisure necessary for serious essays in poetry.