Poets of Portsmouth (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Poets of Portsmouth In offering this volume to the public, while we would put forth no extravagant claims in its behalf, we cannot deny that we regard it as indicating a high average order of taste, sentiment, culture, and poetical ability in the writers. It must be remembered, that, of the entire number, not more than four or five have placed themselves prominently before the world as candidates for fame; that most of them have made poetry their pastime, and not even one among their occupations; and that the pieces now gathered were, for the most part, literally fugitive pieces, - some written with no view to publication, others prepared only for the brief life which the weekly or daily newspaper might give them. Yet, among these last, there are not a few which the public will not let die. 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.