Gems of Poetry, from Forty-Eight American Poets: Embracing the Most Popular Authors (Classic Reprint)

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Tms little volume is confidently ofi'ered to the public as a suitable companion for the adult or the juvenile class of readers, and with the confident hope that the beautiful productions, of which it is composed, will be duly appreciated by every admirer of polite literature. Our poetry is, as yet, almost entirely lyric in its character. Barlow's Columbiad is an exception; but that work, though not contemptible, is deficient in all the properties of a great poem. N 0 one, in these days, would think of' quoting it as a production honorable to our infant literature. The lumbering epic of Dr.

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