Sonnets of Three Centuries: A Selection Including Many Examples Hitherto Unpublished

Excerpt from Sonnets of Three Centuries: A Selection Including Many Examples Hitherto Unpublished

It will readily be seen that the plan of this book is unlike anything hitherto adopted in any similar anthology. The aim has been to represent within the limits of a quintessential selection the whole body of native sonnet literature down to our own time. Those who know the subject will perceive that numbers of inedited examples have been collected from obscure sources. It will be seen that as many as a dozen sonnet-writers, who have never before been omitted from a volume of this kind, have not found a place within these pages; but it cannot escape observation that fully forty poets, in the course of the three centuries compassed by the compilation, have here for the first time been included. By the kindness of living poets of established rank it has also been possible very greatly to enhance the interest of the collection, by the addition of a body of sonnets never hitherto published. For this exceptional attraction gratitude from the editor to those who have afforded him disinterested help is due.

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