The Poetry of Other Lands: A Collection of Translations Into English Verse of the Poetry of Other Languages, Ancient and Modern (Classic Reprint)

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His work does not claim to be an encyclopaedia of all the poetry of other countries that has been trans lated into English verse, but is a collection of those minor and lyrical poems that seemed to the compiler, after an examination of all the works on the subject accessible to him, as worthy of being better known to English-speaking people than they ever would become lying hid in obscure corners and amid much rubbish. Some of the translations are so well known that they have almost become incor porated into English poetry, but by far the greater number have never been read by, nor are even known by name to, many of the persons who will meet with this collection; and the compiler hopes that the work may prove to be a valuable companion volume to any one of the encyclopaedias of English poetry that are now published.

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