Excerpt from English Lyrics Anything in the shape of critical or expository comment may at first sight appear rather an encumbrance than a service to a body of poetry which, like the pieces here selected chiefly from the volumes entitled Solz'loouies in Song, At t/ze Gate of tko Convent, and Love's W'idowizood, is already known to readers of verse. The general title, however, under which these poems are here grouped with a special fitness, as I trust I shall succeed in showing - seems to provide a natural occasion for offering some remarks upon the distinctive English note in our poetical literature. 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.