title: The Ecstatic Poetic Tradition: A Critical Study from the Ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore
author:  D.J. Moores 
description: D.J. Moores is a professor of English as well as author and editor of numerous works. He lives in Red Bank, New Jersey.
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  # In Trust
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edith Wharton
  
  
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  IN the good days, just after we all left college, Ned Halidon and I used to
  listen, laughing and smoking, while Paul
  
  
  Ambrose set forth his plans.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  They were immense, these plans, involving, as it sometimes seemed, the
  ultimate aesthetic redemption of the
  
  
  whole human race; and provisionally restoring the sense of beauty to those
  unhappy millions of our fellow
  
  
  country-men who, as Ambrose movingly pointed out, now live and die in
  surroundings of unperc