Excerpt from A Gallery of Famous English and American Poets IN the following pages we offer to our readers a col lection of beautiful passages from the English Poets. They are arranged in chronological order, and embody that technically modern period, from Thomson to our own time: we have included, also, with the renowned masters of English verse, a few of our own American poets, eminently worthy to appear in such a catalogue. Such a collection would, in itself, give value to this volume, but, to enhance its merits in an eminent degree, exquisite art has been brought into the service, in a manner as striking and beautiful as it is novel. In this respect, the work, it is thought, has no superior, if it even have a, rival. About the Publisher 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.