Gems of the modern poets

Preface

With scarcely an exception, the Editor has been favoured by the living Poets with memoranda for his brief biographies ; and, with most of them, he has the honour to be personally acquainted. As regards facts, therefore, he has gone upon sure ground; and, as it was his duty to introduce into the volume only such as have achieved and merited fame, he trusts that his criticisms will be neither displeasing to them, nor unsatisfactory to the Public.

The Editor earnestly, and with some degree of confidence, hopes that his Selections from the Modern Poets may have the effect of directing attention to the sources whence they are drawn, — of increasing that taste for Poetry which the " scientific spirit of the age" has lessened, — and of adding to the circulation of the "Works," by showing the enjoyment and instruction that may be derived from them.

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