Amazon.com description: Product Description: Rj 175 MAIN WS f- PREFACE. This volume took its origin from an old habit of cop3-ing anjpoem or lines that interested me into a blank book. In many years, my selections filled the volume, and required another; anc still the convenience of commanding all my favorites in one album, instead of searching m own and other libraries for a desired song or verse, and the belief that what charmed me probably might charm others, suggested the printing of my enlarged selection. I know the convenience and merits of the existing anthologies, and the necessity of printing in every collection many masterpieces which all English-speaking men have agreed in admiring. Each has its merits ;but I have found that the best of these collections do not contain certain gems of pure lustre, whilst they admit man of questionable claim. The voluminous octavos of Anderson and Chalmers have the same fault of too much mass and too little genius; and even the more select Golden Treasury of Mr. Palgrave omits too much that I cannot spare. I am aware that no two readers would make the same selection. Of course, I shall gladly hail with the public a better collection than mine. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. It requires that splendor of expression which carries with it the proof of great thoughts. Great thoughts insure musical expressions. Every word should be the right word.
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