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Chrysomela: A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick (Classic Reprint)
Chrysomela A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick - Classic Reprint Author:Robert Herrick PREFACE BORN 1591: DIED 1674 THOSE who most admirc the Poet from whose nlany pieces a selection only lS here offered, will, it i~ ~robable, feel most strongly (vith the Editor) that excuse is needed (or an attempt of an obviously prcsumptuous naturc. The choice made by any selector invites challenge: t1c admission, pcrhaps, of some poems, the ab... more »sence of tnore, wUl be censured !-Vhilst other.; may wholly condemn the process, in virtue of an argument not unfrequently advanced of late, that a writer's judgment on his own work is to be considered final, nnd his bo~k to be bken as 1lC left it, or left altogether; a litcral reproduction of the origi nal text being occaslonally included in this requirement. If poetry were composed solely for her faithful band of true lO"'ers and true students, such a facsimile as that last indicated would have clainls irresistible; bUL jf t1le first Clnd last object of this, as of the other Fine Arts, mny be defined in language bor
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