The poetical works of Longfellow. Reprinted from the best editions, with explanatory notes, &c. ...

Preface To The First Edition

educing to the public a New Edition of the Poetical Works of low, as the first of a Series of Standard Poets, to be designated he distinctive title of the " Chandos Poets," the publishers beg to • as an apology for not giving the precedence to an English or, the great popularity of the American writer, whose poems are ousehold words in English homes, and whose genius has naturalized in our land.

Preface To The Fifth Edition

s Edition contains, in addition to the Poems hitherto published, Cantos from Longfellow's translation of the Divina Commedia )ante, several new translations, and some Poems of very recent I which will be new to the British public.

Bedford Street, May, 1872.