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I have again to acknowledge with deep gratitude the kindness of many publishers and editors. Messrs Macmillan 8c co., Ltd., in particular, have allowed me to reprint Matthew Arnold's 'the Last Word' and Christina Rossetti's A Royal Princess,' while I am indebted to Messrs. Chatto 8c Windus for permission to include a famous stanza from Stevenson's Songs of Travel,' and to Messrs. Ellis 8c Elvey for the same privilege in respect to D. G. Rossetti's Sudden Light.' Everyone who knows these four poems, or makes his first acquaintance with them now, will realize their great importance to the volume. I must also thank the following gentlemen who have allowed me to use copyright texts of non-copyright poems from editions published by them z - Messrs. Chatto 8c Windus (sidney), Mr. Buxton Forman (keats and Shelley), Mr Henry Frowde (words worth), Messrs. T. C. E. C. Jack (burns.
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1330882377
- ISBN 13 9781330882375
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages168
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