Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Life-Poem: And Other Poems
In the long poem I have endeavored to delineate the feel ings and the ambition of a young author, yet I would not have the reader think that what I say is intended to be personal, nor would I have anything be taken as personal either to myself or others, in the volume which I have written. I would merely say, that the original one was much larger, and that I have condensed it as much as possible, h0ping that I have made up for the quantity by the quality, which would I know, be more satisfactory to the reader and leave less ground for the critic to travel over. I care not What this one or that one will say in regard to my work; it will speak for itself and for the author, and thus -i need say no more about it, commending it to the tender mercies of the public, only to add, that whatever may be its success, 'and if circumstances perm-it, I shall, at no distant day, publish a volume perhaps, of a somewhat different character, dedicating this my humble effort, to my friends, to whom. 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.
