Excerpt from The Bard: And Minor Poems Nor can it be justly argued that our more modern writers, notwithstanding the frequency of assertions to the contrary, have lost any of that fire, spirit, and originality, which distinguished their more venerable progenitors. The Poets of the last century have nobly emulated their illus trions predecessors, and it may be greatly questioned if any previous era in our history, not excepting the brilliant reign of Elizabeth, has produced so glorious a result as that to which Wordsworth, Coleridge, Campbell, Byron, Southey, Moore, Shelley, Wilson, Montgomery, and others, have so largely contributed. 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.

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