Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection From the Best Minor Poems of the English Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection From the Best Minor Poems of the English Language

She Walks in Beauty, Lord Byron. Hymn of the Hebrew Maid, Sir Walter Scott. The Destruction of Sennacherib, Lord Byron.

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Excerpt from Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection From the Best Minor Poems of the English Language

The title of this book suggests its purpose. This is simply to bring together, in a single, convenient, and attractive volume, as many as possible of those lesser poems, secular and sacred, in our language, with which the lover of poetry is, or would gladly become, conversant. Many of the pieces are, therefore, the familiar household poems of the language; others, not a few, are of rarer occurrence; and some will greet most readers for the first time. That the Editor has come near to exhausting the class of pieces to which the volume is dedicated, that he has invariably made the best selections, and that any lover of poetry will not miss from them some of his favorites, he does not for a moment flatter himself. A work of triple the size could scarcely exhaust the treasures of this department of our literature. The limits of the volume have compelled him to be exceedingly careful and choice in his selections.

Much pains have been taken to secure accuracy in the text. The poems are nearly all given entire, though in a few instances some stanzas have been dropped, and a few extracts of surpassing excellence have been admitted. As to the character of the pieces while the Editor could not, of course, be responsible for every sentiment admitted, he has felt bound to exclude alike what was erroneous in sentiment or irreverent in spirit. Some otherwise excellent poems have yielded to the application of this principle.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.