Excerpt from American Poems, (1625 1892): Selected and Edited, and Illustrative and Explanatory Notes and a Bibliography In the matter of texts I have been exceptionally fortunate in having at hand two such remarkable collections Of Americana as the Harris Collection of American Poetry and the John Carter Brown Library. I have taken advantage Of their resources to reprint, in full or in part, some rare works which have seldom or never been reprinted. Furthermore, all the seventeenth and eighteenth century poems in this ...
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Excerpt from American Poems, (1625 1892): Selected and Edited, and Illustrative and Explanatory Notes and a Bibliography In the matter of texts I have been exceptionally fortunate in having at hand two such remarkable collections Of Americana as the Harris Collection of American Poetry and the John Carter Brown Library. I have taken advantage Of their resources to reprint, in full or in part, some rare works which have seldom or never been reprinted. Furthermore, all the seventeenth and eighteenth century poems in this volume, with a few exceptions, are Carefully reproduced from first or early editions, not from reprints. The spelling, capitals, italics, etc., of these editions have been retained, because the interest Of many of the poems is largely antiquarian; but typo graphical errors have been corrected, usually without note, and the varying styles in subheadings, stage-directions, etc., which have no particular Significance, have been made uniform. The punctuation of the original editions, which is Often mis leading, has been modernized as an aid to getting the sense quickly and accurately; and for the same reason the long s, and the interchange of i and j and of u and have not been reproduced. In the poetry Of the nineteenth century there was less occasion for the use of early editions; but I have included extracts from some rare volumes of minor poets and from Bryant's Embargo, and have reprinted entire the first form of snow-bound and the Commemoration Ode. Other early editions are utilized in the Notes. The Notes follow the plan which has met with favor in my four volumes of English Poems. Biographies and criticisms by the editor are omitted, because it is assumed that the student will use some manual of the history of American literature in connection with the texts. The Notes include (i) the poet's theory of poetry when this can be given in his own words; (2) statements by the poet or his friends which throw light on the meaning of a poem, or give circumstances connected with the composition of it; (3) explanations Of words, allusions, etc., which the student or reader may find Obscure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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